CAX C SSG Starter

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Introduction .

This project is a starter themes for CAX SSG Project. with modern and dark design system.

CAX SSG is a high-performance static site generator written in pure C. Built for speed and simplicity, it processes Markdown content with frontmatter, renders templates, and generates a complete static website ready for deployment on any hosting platform.

Features .

Core

• Pure C99 - No Node.js, Ruby, Python. Single binary.
• Zero Dependencies - GCC + Make only.
• Blazing Fast - Build 100 pages in < 50ms, < 5MB RAM.
• Markdown + Frontmatter - YAML frontmatter support.
• Pagination Controllers - Any content/*.md with collection: pagination: becomes a list page.
• Dynamic Collections - Every folder in content/ is a collection.
• Multi Layout Support - posts-list.cax, services-list.cax, portfolio-grid.cax - fully dynamic.
• Advanced Template Engine variables: for , if, include, or.
• Pagination Object - pagination.items, pagination.prev_url, pagination.next_url, pagination.current_page, pagination.total_pages, pagination.total_items.
• SEO & Production Ready
• Tags & Taxonomies - Automatic /tags/{tag}/ pages.
• Sitemap - Full sitemap.xml including pagination pages.
• Feeds - feed.xml, rss.xml, feed.json (JSON Feed 1.1).
• Robots - Auto robots.txt with sitemap reference.
• Built-in Server - cax start serves site/ at http://localhost:8080.

Get Start .

Need to download

• GCC Compiler
• Make (or MinGW32-make on Windows)
• Download CAX Minimalis on Gumorad: https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l/cax-minimalis
• Download CAX Minimalis on Github: https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax-minimalis

Installation .

First installation open terminal and run this command

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax.git
cd cax

# Windows
mingw32-make clean
mingw32-make

# Linux / macOS
make clean
make linux

Quick Start

cax build         # Build to site/
cax start         # Build + serve at http://localhost:8080

Architecture .

CAX Minimalis Architecture

C:.
├── content/
│   ├── index.md                 # -> /index.html
│   ├── about.md                 # -> /about/index.html
│   ├── posts.md                 # Controller for posts collection
│   ├── services.md              # Controller for services collection
│   ├── posts/                   # Collection: posts
│   │   ├── why-c.md
│   │   └── template-engine.md
│   ├── products/                # Collection: products
│   └── services/                # Collection: services
├── templates/
│   ├── layouts/
│   │   ├── default.cax
│   │   ├── home.cax
│   │   ├── posts-list.cax       # List layout for posts
│   │   ├── services-list.cax    # List layout for services
│   │   ├── steampunk.cax
│   │   └── tag.cax
│   └── partials/
│       ├── header.cax
│       ├── footer.cax
│       └── index/
├── _data/
│   ├── metadata.json            # site.title, site.url, etc
│   ├── nav.json
│   └── config.json
├── public/
│   ├── css/style.css
│   └── img/
├── src/                         # C source
├── include/cax.h
├── site/                        # Generated output
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── sitemap.xml
│   ├── robots.txt
│   ├── feed.xml
│   ├── rss.xml
│   ├── feed.json
│   ├── posts/
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   └── page/2/index.html
│   └── tags/
├── Makefile
└── cax.exe

Media .

Cax is support media folder you can put css, js, image, video, pdf and others for your media static on public

Configuration .

First you need to setup your site open on _data/config.yaml.

SEO Setup

title: "Static Site Generator Built in Pure C"
description: "Blazing fast zero dependencies,and no runtime overhead."
image: "/img/c.webp"
logo: "/img/c.webp"
url: "/"
author: "AXCORA"

Navbar Setup

navbar_title: "CAX SSG BLOG"
navbar_list:
  - name: "Home"
    url: "/"
  - name: "Article"
    url: "/posts/"
  - name: "About"
    url: "/about/"
  - name: "Docs"
    url: "https://cax.axcora.com/about/"
  - name: "Download"
    url: "https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l//cax"
  - name: "Github"
    url: "https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax"

Footer setup

footer:
  - name: "Github"
    url: "https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax"
  - name: "Download"
    url: "https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l/cax"
  - name: "Hire"
    url: "https://www.fiverr.com/creativitas/design-your-modern-website-using-jekyll"

Hero home page setup

hero:
  badge: "✦ CAX SSG V1.0"
  title: "Static Site Generator\nBuilt in Pure C"
  subtitle: "Blazing fast, zero dependencies,\nand no runtime overhead."
  description: "CAX SSG processes Markdown with frontmatter, renders templates,\nand generates a complete static website in under 50 milliseconds."
  cta_text: "Get Started"
  cta_url: "/posts/"

Complete Setup

title: "Static Site Generator Built in Pure C"
description: "Blazing fast zero dependencies,and no runtime overhead."
image: "/img/c.webp"
logo: "/img/c.webp"
url: "/"
author: "AXCORA"
navbar_title: "CAX SSG BLOG"
navbar_list:
  - name: "Home"
    url: "/"
  - name: "Article"
    url: "/posts/"
  - name: "About"
    url: "/about/"
  - name: "Docs"
    url: "https://cax.axcora.com/about/"
  - name: "Download"
    url: "https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l//cax"
  - name: "Github"
    url: "https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax"
footer:
  - name: "Github"
    url: "https://github.com/mesinkasir/cax"
  - name: "Download"
    url: "https://creativitaz.gumroad.com/l/cax"
  - name: "Hire"
    url: "https://www.fiverr.com/creativitas/design-your-modern-website-using-jekyll"
hero:
  badge: "✦ CAX SSG V1.0"
  title: "Static Site Generator\nBuilt in Pure C"
  subtitle: "Blazing fast, zero dependencies,\nand no runtime overhead."
  description: "CAX SSG processes Markdown with frontmatter, renders templates,\nand generates a complete static website in under 50 milliseconds."
  cta_text: "Get Started"
  cta_url: "/posts/"

Collections .

CAX is support with auto collections page, you can easy to create a new folder and name it with postsfor example.

then create a mew file on content/posts/md , and setup your posts collections, format:

---
layout: starter/post.cax
hero: 
  title: Blog - CAX SSG
  info: Editorial
  description: All articles about CAX Static Site Generator
collection: posts
pagination: 6
---

Page .

You can udpate or create new static page access on content and create your new markdown file , example about.md.

format:

title: About CAX
description: Why CAX was created - Blazing fast Static Site Generator in pure C for everyone
layout: starter/info.cax
---

## About CAX

CAX was created for one simple reason: **make static site generation easy, fast, and accessible for everyone.**

Posts .

After you have create a collections folder posts now you can update or create a new posts , create new markdown file, example content/posts/deploy.md

format:

---
title: Deploy CAX SSG to Production
description: Deploy your static site to GitHub Pages, Vercel, Netlify, or any host.
layout: starter/detil.cax
image: /img/minima/cax-opening.webp
tags: ["deployment", "production", "hosting"]
date: 2026-06-20
author: CAX Team
---
CAX SSG generates aritlce here...

Deploy .

next you can publish your site on your hosting. run

cax build

and upload your site folder in to to Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or any static hosting.

Support .

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