CodeKit 3 to HTML Util

The project aims to help those, who have written projects in CodeKit 3, but want to process those files on Linux/CICD Pipeline/Windows. CodeKit 3 is and excellent tool and we recommend to go and buy it.

The goal here is to have alternative for different platforms.

DISCLAIMER: I am not developer of CodeKit, nor I am planning to support any requests in that area.

Features and limitrations

If you have a look at Languages: Kit - those are the features that this utility tries to fovide in a single binary, that runs on all platforms.

Current limitations

• Supports only variables defined like:

  <!-- $my-variable:MY-VALUE -->

  or multiline

  <!-- 
  $my-variable:
  MY-VALUE 
  -->

• Supports only inclusion of variables in the following form:

  <!-- $my-variable -->

• Supports only includes/imports using the following variations

  <!-- @import relative_path/file1.kit -->

  <!-- @include relative_path/file1.kit -->

  <!-- @import "relative_path/file1.kit"  'relative_path/file2.kit' -->

• DOES NOT Support @compile expressions

• DOES NOT Support nil variables

• Destination directories have to be precreated. The utility does not take care to create new directories and will fail in writing the output files if the directory does not exist

Installation

Download the latest release from ckit2html releases that matches you operating system (Windows, MacOSX-darwin, Linux).

Extract the archive and place the utility into you path (suggested is also renaming it also just to ckit2html)

Usage

Usage of ckit2html:
  -in string
        Input folder (default ".")
  -out string
        Output folder (default ".")
  -v    Set to verbose output

Example (transforming src/ folder contining .kit files to folder dist/ - where the generated HTMLs will be):

ckit2html -in src -out dist

NOTE: Imports of of files like @import my_kit_file.kit work also for _my_kit_file.kit as this is the CodeKit behavior. Files that start with _ will not be transformed to HTML files.

Alternatives

The Kit Compiler

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Nick Penkov. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.