Built-in Processors

jstatico includes several processors out of the box.

Preprocessors

Markdown Processor

Matches: *.md files

Features:

• Converts Markdown to HTML using marked
• Extracts YAML frontmatter to meta
• Adds syntax highlighting with highlight.js
• Supports GitHub Flavored Markdown

JSON Processor

Matches: _*.json files

Features:

• Parses JSON content
• Loads data into tree context
• Files are not written to output

Postprocessors

HTML Processor

Matches: *.html files

Features:

• Renders Nunjucks templates
• Supports template inheritance
• Minifies HTML output
• Handles clean URLs

Page Generator Processor

Matches: *.processor.js files

Features:

• Executes JavaScript to generate pages
• Can create multiple output files
• Useful for pagination, tag pages

Bundle Processor

Matches: *.bundle files

Features:

• Marks files to skip writing
• Useful for source files included elsewhere

Writers

Simple File Writer

Matches: Common web files (.html, .css, .js, .png, .jpg, etc.)

Features:

• Writes files to destination directory
• Preserves directory structure