Minimal Dotnet Themes DAX SSG
Free download and open source code dotnet SSG DAX C# Minimalis clean project website themes template.

Introduction

DAX - Pure C# Slim Static Site Generator .NET

Built for performance. DAX generates pure static HTML with zero JavaScript bloat. Perfect Lighthouse scores out of the box, without complex tooling or frameworks.

Without complex configuration—much like Jamstack-based SSGs such as Eleventy (11ty), Jekyll, or Astro.js—Dax precisely meets your needs in the modern SSG era.

Features

DAX Features:

• Auto SEO
• Auto Metatag
• Auto Twitter Card
• Auto Open Graph
• Auto JSON LD
• Auto Collections
• Auto Pagination
• Auto Next Prev Post
• Fast Build
• JAMSTACK Taste
• YAML Data Support
• Json Data Support
• Write on Markdown md files
• Easy Installation
• Built with pure C#
• Slim Blast Fast .NET SSG

Installation

for first make sure you have download dotnet : https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

next you can open terminal cmd and run this command :

SLIM VERSION

git clone https://github.com/mesinkasir/dax.git
cd dax
dotnet run -- build
dotnet run -- start
open localhost:8080

DAX VERSION

git clone https://github.com/mesinkasir/dax.git
cd dax
dotnet publish -c Release -o .
dax build
dax start
open localhost:8080

Architecture

The DAX Architecture

dax/
├── Program.cs              # Single-file SSG engine
├── Dax.csproj              # net9.0, PublishSingleFile
├── README.md
├── LICENSE (MIT)
├── .gitignore
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/
│       └── build.yml       # CI: build + test
│       └── deploy.yml      # Github Pages Deploy
├── _data/                  # Global data (auto-loaded)
│   ├── metadata.json       # site.title, site.url
│   ├── config.yaml         # Free YAML - nested list support
│   └── nav.json
├── content/                # File-based content (auto collections)
│   ├── index.md            # /  (free frontmatter: hero, image, etc)
│   ├── tags.md             # /tags/ (auto tags list)
│   ├── posts.md            # /posts/ controller -> collection: posts, pagination: 6
│   └── posts/
│       ├── hello.md        # /posts/hello/ - tags: [csharp, dax]
│       └── second.md
├── templates/
│   ├── layouts/
│   │   ├── base.dax        # Base layout
│   │   ├── home.dax        # Home + hero.list, config.list
│   │   ├── posts-list.dax  # Uses pagination.items
│   │   ├── post.dax        # Single post + prev_post/next_post
│   │   ├── tag.dax         # Single tag page
│   │   └── tags-list.dax   # All tags index
│   └── partials/
│       ├── header.dax      
│       ├── footer.dax
│       └── seo.dax
├── public/
│   └── css/style.css
└── site/                   # Generated (gitignored)
    ├── index.html
    ├── posts/
    ├── tags/
    ├── sitemap.xml
    ├── robots.txt
    └── rss.xml

Configuration

For first you need to setup your site , open on _data/metadata.yaml.

Update with your site configuration

title: MINIMAL
description: "Minimal is a simple and clean theme for DAX Static Site Generator. It is designed to be lightweight and fast, with a focus on content and readability."
url: /minimal/
navbar: 
  title: MINIMAL
  list: 
    - title: "Home"
      url: "/minimal/"
    - title: "About"
      url: "/about/"
    - title: "Blog"
      url: "/posts/"
    - title: "Docs"
      url: "/docs/"
    - title: "Deploy"
      url: "/deploy/"
    - title: "Download"
      url: "https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l/dax"
    - title: "Github"
      url: "https://github.com/mesinkasir/dax/"
about: 
  title: "DAX .NET Static Site Generator"
  description: "DAX is a slim .NET SSG. Build static sites 50x faster than Blazor SSG. No WASM bloat, just pure static HTML. For .NET devs who hate Blazor slow."
  image: /img/dax-primary-logo.webp

Information :

• Default SEO title,description,url.
• Navbar to setup your navbar
• About this is to udpate your post article widget.

Media

DAX is support with your static media such css, js , image, file, video and others. just upload your media file on public folder.

Home Page

To update home page open on content/index.md.

frontmatter:

---
title: Home
layout: home.dax
hero:
  title: Hello DAX
  description: Slim SSG
  list:
    - name: Blog
      url: /posts/
      meta:
        icon: star
---
Welcome!

Static Page

To update static page you can access on content then create your new markdown file, example about.md.

format:

---
layout: minimal/page.dax
title: Why DAX (C#) is Faster & Easier than CAX (C)
description: CAX was built in C - blazing fast but painful to hack. DAX rewrites the same philosophy in Pure C# and wins on DX.
---
Article here...

Blog List

To update blog list you can access on content/posts.md.

format:

---
collection: posts
title: Blog list
description: List of articles
pagination: 6
layout: posts-list.dax
---

Template Layout

You can update your templating on templates.

• Layouts is for you layout such base.dax and others
• Partilas is your modular widget or section such: navbar.dax

Support

• Support via PayPal
• Support via Github
• Support via Gumroad