⚠️ Foil is currently not ready for public use, though you're free to take a look at the source! ⚠️

Whether you're a writer, artist, musician, engineer, or all of the above, this tool makes it easy and fast to showcase a variety of content.

Usage

# 🏗️ Compile once
foil-cli

# 👀 Watch for changes and auto-recompile
foil-cli --watch

And typically you'll get a response like this:

✨ Foil v1.0.0-alpha.0 (development)
⚙️ Found foil.json file.
🍃 Opening MongoDB Connection.
👋 Hi Alain Galvan!
🎡 Processing 1 files.

👟  Running Task (1/4)...
🌊 Foil Database Cleaner:
🧼 Cleaned  'files' collection.
🧼 Cleaned  'portfolio' collection.
✔️️  Finished Task (1/4)!

👟  Running Task (2/4)...
📦 Foil Database Builder:
⚪ Processing '/blog/frame-analysis-control':
🟦 TypeScript Transformer:
🔨 Building Module '/blog/main.js'
🟨 Done in 322 ms!

📒 Indexed /blog/main.js
📝 Blog Transformer:
🏫 Built index.md with Markademic.
📒 Indexed 18 static files.
Added Frame Analysis - Control to the Database.
✔️️ Finished Task (2/4)!

👟 Running Task (3/4)...
📻 Foil RSS Feeds

RSS feed successfully generated. 
Written to alain.xyz\packages\portfolio\rss.xml

✔️️ Finished Task (3/4)!

👟 Running Task (4/4)...
🏹 Foil Database Redirects

Redirecting /blog/raytracing-denoising to /blog/ray-tracing-denoising.
✨ Cleaned portfolio collection.
✔️ Finished Task (4/4)!

💮 Finished processing 4 tasks!

Features

• 🐙 Git Powered with a daemon tool to handle continuous deployment from your git repo, let git be your CMS and simplify your blog workflow.

• 🕹️ Everything is a JavaScript module, from blog posts to books, music albums, or even custom mini-applications like games, demos, or tools. Use JavaScript Modules for it all, and have it all automatically combine and transpile together for your post.

• 🏙️ A simple and extendable API for building truly custom portfolios. Define your own data schemas or use our recommended setups for different portfolio types.

Read about some of the opinions that guided its design over here.

Ecosystem

• 💻 foil-cli - A command line interface to help perform tasks to index a foil portfolio, from compiling packages with Webpack to cleaning the database.

How it Works

The Foil CLI is a tool to populate your backend database with data to be read by your frontend.

By default the CLI targets the current directory it's called from, and attempts to create portfolio items from any package.json files it finds within that directory that feature a "foil" key. This design is similar to authoring an extension to a text editor like VS Code.

The schema for the "foil" object can be found in ./foil.schema.json.

You may want to map this schema to your portfolio folder for better auto-complete, here's a guide to do this in VS Code.

{
    "description": "A WebGPU real time renderer of GLTF files.",
    "files": ["main.tsx"],
    "main": "main.tsx",
    "keywords": ["demo", "webgpu", "gltf"],
    "foil": {
        "title": "WebGPU GLTF",
        "permalink": "demos/webgpu-gltf",
        "datePublished": "09/02/2021 09:50 PM EST"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@webgpu/types": "^0.1.6"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "@loaders.gl/core": "^3.0.9",
        "@loaders.gl/gltf": "^3.0.9",
        "gl-matrix": "^3.3.0"
    }
}

File Transformers

Your Foil post's package.json points to an entry file, be it JavaScript, TypeScript, Markdown, or a custom file format you want to support.

Transformers use a test object to compare with the current post, and if there's a match, executes a transform which returns a modified version of a Foil post. For example, here's a transformer for academically flavored markdown:

import { markademic } from 'markademic';
import { join } from 'path';
import { readFileSync } from 'fs';

export let md = {
    // 💉 a test object that's used to compare with the `package.json` file.
    test: { file: /\.md$/ },

    // 🚒 the function that takes in the package data and lets you modify it.
    transform: async post => {
        let config = {
            input: readFileSync(post.file).toString(),
            rerouteLinks: link => join(post.permalink, link)
        };

        let data = '';

        try {
            data = markademic(config);
        } catch (e) {
            console.error('Markademic', e.message);
        }

        return {
            ...post,
            data
        };
    }
};

Licensing

All source code is available with an MIT license, feel free to take bits and pieces and use them in your own projects. I would love to hear how you found things useful, feel free to contact me on Twitter @alainxyz and let me know.