marie-ssg

Project Overview

Marie SSG is a static site generator written in Rust that converts markdown files with TOML metadata into HTML pages using Jinja-style templates. It follows a pipeline architecture: load content in parallel, render through templates, write output.

Key characteristics:

• Single-purpose tool focused on doing one thing well
• Parallel content loading with Rayon
• Jinja-style templating with Minijinja
• Syntax highlighting with Autumnus (10 languages)
• Watch mode support on macOS

Development Environment

Tooling Setup

The project uses mise for task management and tool versioning. See mise.toml for the complete task reference.

Required tools:

• Rust 1.90.0 (managed by mise)
• Python 3.13.10 (managed by mise)

Key mise tasks:

mise run fmt          # Format code with cargo fmt
mise run lint         # Lint with Clippy (fails on warnings)
mise run tests        # Run all tests with output
mise run verify       # Full verification (lint + tests)
mise run coverage     # Run tests with coverage (requires cargo-tarpaulin)
mise run build-dev    # Build development version
mise run build-prod   # Build release version
mise run audit        # Security audit on dependencies
mise run check-deps   # Run audit + find unused dependencies

Examples

See examples

Context

See agents

Version History

v1.0.0 (2026-01-03)

• Added allow_dangerous_html config option for raw HTML in markdown (SVG, figure tags, etc.)
• Improved logging format with module::function prefixes for consistency
• Added symbols for visual scanning: ← (read), → (write), ✓ (unchanged)
• INFO level now shows each rendered file and index page
• Added static file copy summary at INFO level
• Added detailed IO debug logging (io::read, io::write, io::copy)
• Shortened watch::change INFO output to show only event_id

v0.9.0 (2025-12-30)

• Migrated from chrono to time crate for datetime handling
• Added kiters crate for UTC timestamp formatting in tracing
• Enhanced tracing with EnvFilter support and UTC timestamps
• Migrated from basic-toml to toml crate (~2x faster parsing)
• Reduced binary size from 80MB to 9MB (89% reduction) by limiting syntax highlighting languages
• Restored missing mise tasks (tests, verify)
• Added TOML parser benchmark and migration documentation

v0.8.1 (2025-12-24)

• Added sitemap_enabled configuration option
• Added retroactive PRDs and workflow documentation
• Added comprehensive examples/site.toml
• Added performance benchmarks for HTML unescaping

v0.8.0 (2025-12-24)

• Added automatic sitemap.xml generation

v0.7.1 (2025-12-24)

• Added url filter to prevent forward slash escaping in templates

v0.7.0 (2025-12-23)

• Added syntax highlighting for code blocks using Autumnus
• Supported languages: Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Bash, JSON, TOML, YAML
• Configurable themes with github_dark as default
• Enable via syntax_highlighting_enabled and syntax_highlighting_theme in site config

v0.6.0 (2025-12-22)

• Added all_content variable to index templates for tag counting

v0.5.0 (2025-12-20)

• Added watch subcommand for automatic rebuilds (macOS)
• Moved build to subcommand structure (marie-ssg build)
• Added -V / --version flag

v0.4.0 (2025-12-15)

• Reached 86% test coverage with integration tests
• Added HTML DOM validation in tests using scraper
• Refactored template rendering for testability

v0.3.0 (2025-10-14)

• Added template caching with OnceLock
• Introduced nested config structure
• Added [dynamic] section for custom template variables

v0.2.0 (2025-10-10)

• Parallel content loading with Rayon
• Single-pass content loading (66% fewer I/O operations)
• Build timing instrumentation

v0.1.0

• Initial release with core SSG functionality