Hi! I'm DocPad, I streamline the web development process and help close the gap between experts and beginners. I've been used in production by big and small companies for over a year and a half now to createplenty of amazing and powerful web sites and applicationsquicker than ever before. What makes me different is instead of being a box to cram yourself into and hold you back, I'm a freeway to what you want to accomplish, just getting out of your way and allowing you to create stuff quicker than ever before without limits. Leave the redundant stuff up to me, so you can focus on the awesome stuff.
Discover my features below, or skip ahead to the installation instructions to get started with afully functional pre-made websitein a few minutes from reading this.
- Completely file based, meaning there are no pesky databases that need to be installed, and for version control you get to use systems like Git and SVN, which you're already used to (You can still hook in remote data sources if you want, DocPad doesn't impose any limits on you, ever)
- Choose from plenty of community maintainedpre-made websitesto use for your next project instead of starting from scratch every time
- Write your documents in any language, markup, templating engine, or pre-processor you wish (we're truly agnostic thanks to your plugin system). You can even mix and match them when needed by combining their extensions in a rails-like fashion (e.g.
coffee-with-some-eco.js.coffee.eco) - Changes to your website are automatically recompiled through our built-in watch system
- Add metadata to the top of your files to be used by templating engines to display non-standard information such as titles and descriptions for your documents
- Display custom listings of content with our powerfulQuery Engineavailable to your templating engines
- Abstract out generic headers and footers into layouts using our nested layout system
- For simple static websites easily deploy your generated website to any web server like apache or github pages. For dynamic projects deploy them to servers likeherokuto take advantage of custom routing withexpress.js.Deploy guide here
- Built-in server to save you from having to startup your own, for dynamic deployments this even supports things like clean urls, custom routes and server-side logic
- Robust architecture and powerful plugin system means that you are never boxed in. Unlike traditional CMS systems, you can alwaysextend DocPadto do whatever you need it to do, and you can even write to bundle common custom functionality and distribute them through the amazing node package managernpm
- Built-in support for dynamic documents (e.g. search pages, signup forms, etc), so you can code pages that change on each request by just adding
dynamic: trueto your document's meta data (exposes theexpress.jsreqandresobjects to your templating engine) - You can use it standalone, or even easily include it within your existing systems with ourAPI
- Use theLive Reloadplugin to automatically refresh your web browser whenever a change is made, this is amazing
- Pull in remote RSS/Atom/JSON feeds into your templating engines allowing you to display your latest twitter updates or github projects easily and effortlessly using theFeedr Plugin
- Support for every templating engine and pre-processor under the sun, including (but not limited to) CoffeeScript, CoffeeKup, ECO, HAML, Handlebars, Jade, Less, Markdown, PHP, Ruby, SASS and Stylus -the full listing is here
- Use thePartials Pluginto abstract common pieces of code into their own individual file that can be included as much as you want
- Syntax highlight code blocks automatically with either ourHighlight.js PluginorPygments Plugin
- Get SEO friendly clean URLs with ourClean URLs Plugin(dynamic deployments only)
- Lint your code automatically with our Ling Plugins:jshintandcoffeelint
- Concatenate and minify your JavaScript and CSS assets making page loads faster for your users with our Minify Plugins:htmlminandgrunt
- Install common javascript libraries like jQuery, Backbone and Underscore directly from the command line - (under construction, coming soon)
- Automatically translate your entire website into other languages with our Translation Plugin - under construction, coming soon
- Add an admin interface to your website allowing you to edit, save and preview your changes on live websites then push them back to your source repository with theAdmin Plugins
- Pretty much if DocPad doesn't already do something, it is trivial towrite a pluginto do it. DocPad can accomplish anything; it never holds you back, and there are no limits.
- Many other pluginsnot listed here that are still definitely worth checking out!:)
All sorts of people love DocPad, from first time web developers to even industry leaders and experts. In fact, people even migrate to DocPad from other systems as they love it so much. Here are some ourfavourite tweetsof what people are saying about DocPad:)
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Discover the release history by heading on over to theHISTORY.mdfile.
Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to theCONTRIBUTING.mdfile.
These amazing people are maintaining this project:
- Benjamin Lupton—view contributions
- Michael Duane Mooring—view contributions
- Rob Loach—view contributions
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- Aaron Powell—view contributions
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- Morgan Larosa
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- JT Turner
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- Luke Hagan—view contributions
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- Neil Taylor—view contributions
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- Nick Crohn—view contributions
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- Paul Armstrong
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- Ke Zhu
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- Anton Wilhelm
- Todd Anglin
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- Prayag Verma
- Steve Mc—view contributions
- Todd Anglin—view contributions
- Prayag Verma—view contributions
Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to theCONTRIBUTING.mdfile.
Also thanks to all the countless others who have continued to raise DocPad even higher by submitting plugins, issues reports, discussion topics, IRC chat messages, and praise on twitter. We love you.
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- Copyright ©Benjamin Lupton
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