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Photon is a static site generator based on Neos CMS technology.

What is Photon?

Content is stored in folders and files without needing a database
A static version of the Neos Content Repository provides many of the same features like flexible and custom Node Types for structuring semantic content - by using folders and YAML files
Content can be nested inside YAML files (but it can always be split in separate files)
Photon does not use a fixed one-to-one mapping between files for the content and its output, like many other SSGs
Generating something (it's not limited to HTML) from the content is fully flexible and based on Fusion (as one possible generator implementation)
Fusion in Photon can use FlowQuery to traverse static nodes almost like in the original content repository
For now it's an experiment to see how static site generation and Neos can be brought together

Getting started

Creating a new project

composer create-project flowpack/photon-base-distribution -s dev photon-demo

Generate content from the demo package

./flow generate:content Flowpack.Photon.Demo

See Flowpack.Photon.Demo/Resources/Private/Fusion/Root.fusion for a demo generator definition and Flowpack.Photon.Demo/Resources/Private/Content for the static content layout.

Development

All development is done in https://github.com/Flowpack/photon-development-collection, expect to find a lot of loose ends and bugs.

flowpack / photon-base-distribution

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