Single File, Generate/ Deploy

[rahil471]

Can we only generate/deploy single file?
Eg:

• I run hexo deploy/generate once. (This renders everything)
• Now I'm only modifying a single _posts (creating a new article or editing it).
• Now instead of having me to do hexo generate again it would be great if I could just place that new/edited article.

[NoahDragon]

You could do so via hexo render command, however, a new post may also affect the archive, category, rss, tag, and index pages. Therefore, the hexo generate will help to handle all these relations.

https://hexo.io/docs/commands.html#render

[rahil471]

Yes correct and that's why the render command does not suits my needs, also it does not apply the theme, only does a plain html conversion.

[NoahDragon]

I got your idea. I thought renderer would apply the theme.

[rahil471]

Great Thanks! Would be great if you could provide me some pointers, I'll send a PR once done.

[NoahDragon]

Glad you would like to contribute. I think you could start with the ConsoleRender. Probably add a flag to make it render with themes. https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/blob/master/lib/plugins/console/render.js

[rahil471]

Cool, thanks!

[NoahDragon]

Moreover, you also could take a look at how generate command rendering a post.

hexo/lib/hexo/index.js

Lines 382 to 390 in 4676ca2

	for (var i = 0; i < layoutLength; i++) {
	name = layout[i];
	view = theme.getView(name);
	if (view) {
	log.debug('Rendering %s: %s', name, chalk.magenta(path));
	return view.render(locals).then(saveCache);
	}
	}

[rahil471]

Great that helps!

[rahil471]

Hey There, I'm half way through it.
Got a question.
view.render function takes in locals as a parameter, but in our case we only need to render a single file from the cli. So what should that parameter be set to?

[NoahDragon]

I think it should set to the path and file data.

hexo/lib/hexo/index.js

Lines 350 to 354 in 4676ca2

	var path = route.format(item.path);
	var data = item.data;
	var layout = item.layout;
	newRouteList.push(path);