metalpress-cli

CLI for Metalpress (Official)

Structure and Templating

metalpress works from a specific directory structure. It contains a templates and src directory. Within the src directory it will load data from data as yaml or json files. You can create folders for collections and use markdown files for pages. You should store all assets in assets.

For templating, metalpress uses liquid. You can learn more about the syntax here.

Here's an example structure:

├── package.json
├── src
│   ├── data
│       ├── site.yaml
│       ├── projects.json
│   ├── assets
│       ├── sass
│       ├── img
│       ├── fonts
│       ├── js
│           ├── index.js
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── pages
│       ├── about.md
│   └── posts
│       ├── 2016-08-25-how-to-use-metalpress.md
├── templates
│   ├── _includes
│       ├── header.liquid
│       ├── footer.liquid
│   └── _layouts
│       ├── home.liquid

Installation

npm install metalpress-cli -g

CLI Usage

Initialize a New Project

Prompts a series of questions and creates a new .metalpress config.

metalpress init

Start a Browser-sync Server

Serve the project on automatically assigned browser-sync port. (default: http://localhost:3000)

metalpress serve

Deploy a Project

To deploy your site, you'll need to have your aws.json set up. It includes:

{
  "key":"AWS_ACCESS_KEY_HERE",
  "secret":"AWS_SECRET_KEY_HERE",
  "stagingBucket":"staging.example.com",
  "productionBucket":"example.com"
}

Deploy a dist and deployed to AWS S3.

Staging

metalpress deploy

Production

metalpress deploy -p