Working (basic) version of the html generator

go.mod

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ go 1.18
 require github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.4.14
 
 require (
+	github.com/otiai10/copy v1.7.0 // indirect
 	github.com/yuin/goldmark-meta v1.1.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
 )

go.sum

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+github.com/otiai10/copy v1.7.0 h1:hVoPiN+t+7d2nzzwMiDHPSOogsWAStewq3TwU05+clE=
+github.com/otiai10/copy v1.7.0/go.mod h1:rmRl6QPdJj6EiUqXQ/4Nn2lLXoNQjFCQbbNrxgc/t3U=
+github.com/otiai10/curr v0.0.0-20150429015615-9b4961190c95/go.mod h1:9qAhocn7zKJG+0mI8eUu6xqkFDYS2kb2saOteoSB3cE=
+github.com/otiai10/curr v1.0.0/go.mod h1:LskTG5wDwr8Rs+nNQ+1LlxRjAtTZZjtJW4rMXl6j4vs=
+github.com/otiai10/mint v1.3.0/go.mod h1:F5AjcsTsWUqX+Na9fpHb52P8pcRX2CI6A3ctIT91xUo=
+github.com/otiai10/mint v1.3.3/go.mod h1:/yxELlJQ0ufhjUwhshSj+wFjZ78CnZ48/1wtmBH1OTc=
 github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.4.14 h1:jwww1XQfhJN7Zm+/a1ZA/3WUiEBEroYFNTiV3dKwM8U=
 github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.4.14/go.mod h1:6yULJ656Px+3vBD8DxQVa3kxgyrAnzto9xy5taEt/CY=
 github.com/yuin/goldmark-meta v1.1.0 h1:pWw+JLHGZe8Rk0EGsMVssiNb/AaPMHfSRszZeUeiOUc=

main.go

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+
+	cp "github.com/otiai10/copy"
 )
 
 func walk(rootDir string) ([]string, error) {
@@ -42,11 +44,17 @@ func main() {
 	outputDir = flag.String("out", defaultOutputDir, "Specify the output directory")
 	flag.Usage = func() {
 		fmt.Printf("Jack expects: \n")
-		fmt.Printf("./jack -dir <rootDir>\n")
+		fmt.Printf("./jack -dir <rootDir> -out <outputDir>\n")
 	}
 	flag.Parse()
 
-	files, _ := walk(*rootDir)
+	copyErr := cp.Copy(*rootDir, *outputDir)
+
+	if copyErr != nil {
+		fmt.Println(copyErr)
+	}
+
+	files, _ := walk(*outputDir)
 
 	var articles []models.Article
 
@@ -59,10 +67,8 @@ func main() {
 		fmt.Println(article)
 
 		articles = append(articles, article)
-	}
 
-	for _, article := range articles {
-		article.WriteTo(outputDir)
+		article.Write()
 	}
 
 	fmt.Println("HTML files were written to: ", *outputDir)

models/models.go

@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ package models
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
 	meta "github.com/yuin/goldmark-meta"
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ type Article struct {
 	RelativeFilePath string
 }
 
-func (a Article) FromFile() Article {
+func (a *Article) FromFile() {
 	// Build an Article based on a file path
 
 	content, err := os.ReadFile(a.File)
@@ -32,10 +31,10 @@ func (a Article) FromFile() Article {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	return a.FromContent(content)
+	a.FromContent(content)
 }
 
-func (a Article) FromContent(content []byte) Article {
+func (a *Article) FromContent(content []byte) {
 	// Build an Article instance from a byte[] content
 
 	md := goldmark.New(
@@ -54,23 +53,12 @@ func (a Article) FromContent(content []byte) Article {
 	if err := md.Convert(content, &buf, parser.WithContext(context)); err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
+	a.HtmlContent = buf.String()
 	metadata := meta.Get(context)
 	a.Title, _ = metadata["Title"].(string)
-	a.HtmlContent = buf.String()
-
-	fmt.Println(a.Title)
-	fmt.Println(a.HtmlContent)
-
-	return a
 }
 
-func (a Article) WriteTo(outputPath *string) {
-	outputFilePath := filepath.Join(*outputPath, a.RelativeFilePath, "index.html")
-
-	// creates the full directories tree
-	if err := os.MkdirAll("a/b/c/d", os.ModePerm); err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ioutil.WriteFile(outputFilePath, []byte(a.HtmlContent), 0644) // the 0644 is octal representation of the filemode
+func (a Article) Write() {
+	outputFilePath := strings.Replace(a.File, ".md", ".html", -1)
+	ioutil.WriteFile(outputFilePath, []byte(a.HtmlContent), 0644)
 }