Midas

A minimal static site generator. Put markdown in site/, run midas serve, get a website.

Quick start

midas init my-blog
cd my-blog
midas serve

Or manually:

mkdir site
echo -e '---\ntitle: Hello\n---\n\nWelcome' > site/index.md
midas serve

Open http://localhost:8000.

How it works

Your content lives in site/. Every .md file becomes a page. Everything else (images, CSS, fonts) is copied to _dist/ as-is — the folder structure is your site structure.

site/
├── index.md       →  /
├── about.md       →  /about/
├── p/
│   └── post.md    →  /p/post/
├── style.css      →  /style.css
└── img/
    └── photo.jpg  →  /img/photo.jpg

Blog posts

Files in p/ (or your configured postPrefix) are treated as blog posts, sorted by date (set in frontmatter), and included in RSS feeds.

Styles

Midas ships with a base stylesheet (/midas.css). Add overrides in site/style.css — it's loaded after the base.

Commands

Command	Description
midas init [dir]	Scaffold a project into an empty directory
midas build	Build the site to _dist/
midas serve	Build and start a dev server on http://localhost:8000
midas clean	Delete _dist/

Configuration

midas.yaml is optional. Without it, Midas uses sensible defaults. Set site.url for RSS feeds and site.name for the site header.

site:
  url: "https://example.com"
  name: "My Site"

languages:
  default: en
  additional: [fi]

See the configuration reference for all available options.

Deploying

Push to GitHub and connect to a static host:

• GitHub Pages — deploy via GitHub Actions
• Cloudflare Pages — set build command to pip install midas-ssg && midas build, output directory to _dist