Gizi

Gizi is a static server that autoupdates itself from a Git repository.

How to install it?

$ npm install -g gizi

How does it work?

The static server is running from the moment when the gizi serve command is executed in the console. The files that are served are in the site directory.

At startup, Gizi clones the repository specified in .gizi.yml to the src subfolder. When all the repo files are created, Gizi runs a set of commands that are specified in the downloaded project's package.json. The commands are supposed to create the resources for the static server and write them to the build folder. The build folder name is also specified in package.json. When all the commands are executed, Gizi copies the files from the build folder to the static server.

Next, Gizi listens to changes in a the Git repository. When a new commit appears in the branch which it listens to, Gizi updates the files in the local file system from the remote repository, executes the commands and updates the files on the server.

How to configure it?

1. Create a .gizi.yml configuration file in the folder where the static server will be hosted.
2. Run gizi serve in that folder.

Gizi will clone the repositories specified in the config file to a subfolder called src and start a static server that will serve files from a subfolder called site.

A .gizi.yml config file can look like this:

port: 9595
ip: 0.0.0.0
sources:
  - name: gizi-sample
    gitUrl: https://gitlab.com/zkochan/gizi-sample.git
buckets:
  - name: sample
    source: gizi-sample
    branch: master
  - name: lala
    source: gizi-sample
    branch: lala

The Git project's package.json has to contain a section with Gizi configs. E.g.:

"gizi": {
  "buildPath": "./_build",
  "cmds": [
    ["rm", "-rf", "node_modules/"],
    ["npm", "install"],
    ["gulp"]
  ]
}

License

The MIT License (MIT)