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Punch

Punch is a simple, intuitive web publishing framework that will delight both designers and developers.

With Punch you can...​

  • Use boilerplates to quickly setup a site.
  • Write minimal templates with Mustache.
  • Create flexible site structures with inheritable layouts and partials.
  • Define page contents in JSON.
  • Use Markdown to write formatted content.
  • Use CoffeeScript and LESS if that's your thing.
  • Minify and bundle assets before serving.
  • Preview changes on the fly, while you develop.
  • Set cache headers and compress responses. (play nice with CDNs)
  • Easily publish to Amazon S3 or to a custom server with SFTP.

Wait, There's more...​

  • Use any data source for content (eg. Relational databases, Document stores or REST APIs).
  • Don't like Mustache? Switch to a different template engine of your choice.
  • Write helpers to add run-time behaviour.
  • Add custom content parsers, pre-compilers, minifiers and publishers.
  • Add hooks to run after generating a page or site.
  • Define your own publishing strategy.