MfGames.Nitride

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MfGames.Nitride is a static site generator built with C# and uses an Entity-Component-System[1] for handling logic. This was originally inspired by a number of other static generators, including my own CobblestoneJS (a Gulp-based static site generator), but with a healthy frustration of trying to implement the complexities of https://fedran.com/ and the limitations of declarative sites. It is a Configuration-as-Code based system in that a C# program is customized using a builder pattern and dependency injection to create the site.

1: /tags/entity-component-system/

2024-09-27 Bakfu and OCI Containers - Thoughts on scope creep, OCI containers, and why I still need Bakfu for package management.

2024-12-31 The End of 2024 - The final thoughts of 2024.

2024-04-21 Reflections on Nitride - I just got mfgames.com migrated over to Nitride, so a few thoughts about the previous three years.

2025-06-08 Using Nitride - Pipelines - The first major concept of Nitride is the idea of a "pipeline" which are the largest units of working in the system. This shows a relatively complex setup of pipelines that will be used to generate the website.

2025-06-10 Using Nitride - Markdown - Examples and explanations of converting Markdown to HTML using MfGames.Nitride and MarkDig.

2025-06-09 Using Nitride - Entities - The continued adventures of creating the Typewriter website using MfGames.Nitride, a C# static site generator. The topic of today is the Entity class and how Nitride uses an ECS (Entity-Component-System) to generate pages.

2025-06-12 Using Nitride - Front Matter - How to use Nitride to take the front matter from pages and add them as a component into the Entity class.

2025-06-07 Using Nitride - Introduction - I'm going to start a long, erratic journey to update my publisher website. Along the way, I'm going to document how to create a MfGames.Nitride website from the ground up, along with a lot of little asides about reasoning or purpose.

2023-09-20 Package Management - Identifiers 2 - Using URNs to identify packages and some re-thinking of concepts.

2023-02-12 Package Management - Identifiers - A short discussion on how to identify packages.

2023-02-13 Package Management - Dependencies - A review of different styles of package dependencies, including across different ecosystems, and then an attempt to consolidate them into a single unified system.