In November, I released Inferno: an open-source collection of Metal shaders for SwiftUI developers, making it easy to create gorgeous special effects in your iOS apps. https://github.com/twostraws/Inferno
Two months later, I released Vortex: a high-performance particle effect system for SwiftUI, so you can bring effects such as confetti, fireworks, fire, and more into your apps. https://github.com/twostraws/Vortex
Today, another two months later, I just released my third and final open-source project, at least for now. It's called Ignite, and it's a Swift static website generator. Your entire site is written as Swift code, then compiled to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite
@twostraws It would be really great if you (or someone else) could create a quick video or blog post (step by step) showing how one can create a simple site. I cloned both the Starter and Samples and Neither compile so I am stuck figuring out how to start. Brain fog😶🌫️😶🌫️
@ramzesenok@twostraws I have it sorted now too. I just imported from the samples into the starter kit. There was also an error in the Samples repo where it was pointing to an incorrect commit from the main repo.
@tapforms@twostraws Perhaps? But here’s the thing… I have seen issues with Vapor and other packages as well. Even the packages disappear from what a few seconds earlier was all fine. And then a barrage of errors. My limited interaction proved frustrating with 15.3 so I went back. I wasted way too much time chasing I-don’t-know-what. And the message wasn’t helpful at all, so I bailed.
@titociuro@twostraws Interesting. I have many other SPM packages in my Xcode 15.3 project without any issues. Something with this package won't work though. I don't really want to go back to Xcode 15.2 though. Hopefully Paul can think of a solution for this package. I'd like to write a database export function using Ignite to build a website from a database.
You can build a whole website using Swift if you want, or bring in Markdown and have those files become pages – it builds on Apple's fantastic swift-markdown library for lightning fast Markdown parsing. Just like Jekyll in Ruby, you can select layouts right in your Markdown.
It has a delightful, SwiftUI-like API, and where possible I've used similar names for elements and modifiers – get started by cloning the starter template. But it's built for the web: not replacing CSS/JavaScript, but building on top of them so you get great results fast.
I've gone out of my way to document all the code as best as I can, and there's a new sample website that demonstrates a wide variety of controls alongside the code it takes to produce each piece of output: https://ignitesamples.hackingwithswift.com
Ignite is open source and available today – I'm grateful to the folks at @tryswiftconf for giving me the chance to announce it. There are so many small ways anyone can get involved, and I would really love to see folks helping no matter how small the contribution.
If you're not sure about making a pull request, I'm happy to help! And once you've managed it once, I promise the next once is easier. There are lots of opportunities to get involved, so please do ✨
@fbartho An environment() modifier would be epic and most appreciated – I'd love to see this implemented, and would really appreciate a PR from you for it! Gosh, if we could nail that, then we could perhaps use property wrappers to access things like site/content data, rather than relying on the publishing context being passed around.
@twostraws I’ll take a look at environment() — probably on Monday or Tuesday! (Though I could be fooling myself in thinking I’ll be able to avoid trying it tomorrow)
@twostraws Looks awesome. I love the pics of your dogs. They're adorable. I would love to help out. I don't think my skillset is high enough yet to be very beneficial, but I do know testing is important. All I can do is try.
@twostraws this looks really cool. I'll dig into it later. Sleep time. But can it be used to generate static sites dynamically? I mean with loops and access to data from my own app and have it generate the static html pages from that?
@tapforms It's Swift code that runs on your Mac when you build the site. It already has support for loops and conditions to generate HTML based on various conditions of your choosing, but you can of course extend that further.
@twostraws This is hilariously typical. I just moved my WordPress site to Hugo last week and then this arrives! Guess what I will be doing over Easter?
@twostraws This looks great for generating a personal website. A great addition would be WebFinger to connect to social media accounts. https://webfinger.net
@twostraws Thank-you Paul! Will have to check this out. After I cry a little bit having spent the last four days fine-tuning the CSS for a website publishing workflow I’d built using another static site generator. 😂
@twostraws This is really exciting. Definitely gonna play with it, I've always toyed with things like Jekyll but never enjoyed needing to deal with Ruby!
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I’m feeling pretty dumb here. How do I build and run the sample? I don't see an Xcode project or workspace, and I've never ever built Swift from the command line.
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