Hello!

Wanna make a website?

web-bud is a small static website maker built with Node. It has well-commented code, awesome limited features, and only one dependency, making it real simple to hack and work with!

Last updated: 3 April 2025

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Here's some cool stuff web-bud comes with:

• only one NPM dependency (chokidar)
• content in Markdown
• reusable HTML components
• uses vanilla CSS and JS
• CSS imports are combined in a single CSS file
• hash-based CSS name for cache busting
• basic templating features
• can inject data at build time
• live reload for comfy development

Try it out!

To do

Improvements

These are some improvements and fixes I would like to implement long-term:

• fix live reload quirks
• id/classes/attributes for all elements in Markdown
• more robust templating tags
• clean/simplify some code
• improve Markdown parser
• more config options (ex. provide your own language/parser)