Flare #

Flare is a collection of Barback transformers for static generation of web sites,
similar to Jekyll, etc.

Usage #

A preliminary example is available here.

Command-line interface #

Before using the the CLI you have to activate it using the following command:

$ pub global activate flare

Then you have access to a number of helper options:

$ flare generate-post-id
$ flare new-post "This is my new post"
$ flare new-post --date=2014/08/02 "This is another post"

Transformers #

Flare provides the following default set of transformers:

MetadataExtractor #

Extracts front-end metadata from content files and transforms the data to the internal JSON format.

MetadataTranslator #

Transforms external metadata to the internal JSON format.

MetadataAggregator #

Aggregates all metadata files into a single metadata structure accessible through the [site] global variable.

MarkdownTransform #

Renders Markdown markup into HTML.

PostsIndexer #

Computes indexing metadata for the posts.

PostsTransformer #

Renders a collection of posts.

MustacheTransformer #

Renders Mustache templates into HTML files.

CleanupTransformer #

Removes temporary files generated by the content generation process.

HtmlOptimizer #

Optimizes the generated HTML files by removing comments and squeezing whitespace.

Status #

The API is not stable yet!

Links #

• Author's blog using Flare
• Pub Assets and Transformers
• Writing Transformers