I was not familiar with Jekyll and not satisfied with the site build/deployment, so I started ideating on ways to improve how my site was being generated. Rust already has a lot of libraries I could use to make it easier to build and understand how it works. I decided to make a CLI app for building markdown files with a YAML header and in a folder of HTML/file templates and website assets into a bunch of static HTML files and website assets that can be deployed to any static site hosting like github pages.
Tech Stack
Rust, templating library, HTML and JS
Architecture of MeowDown
My Site
Lessons Learned
I love being able to modify any part of my website’s build process and that it primarily uses Rust and Markdown with HTML templates.