What is Sklair?

Sklair is a HTML compiler. More specifically, it is an ahead-of-time, source-to-source compiler for a HTML-based authoring language, with embedded Lua evaluation and a document generation pipeline. You write HTML documents and reusable components; Sklair combines them during a build and writes a static website.

Components can have props, conditional content, bodies, styles, scripts, and head contributions. Component tags, bindings, slots, and compile-time Lua disappear from the result, leaving the HTML they produced.

<SiteHeader></SiteHeader>
<ReleaseCard title="Version 2.4"></ReleaseCard>
<SiteFooter></SiteFooter>

The output is ordinary HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets. You can deploy it to a static host. Sklair does not require hydration, a virtual DOM, or a component lifecycle in the browser.

Lua and document generation

Lua can run inside documents, components, and layouts during compilation. It can read data, calculate values, and emit markup. Build hooks run Lua before or after the build to prepare inputs or work with completed output.

Document generation lets a hook register multiple documents using full-document layouts. A directory of Markdown articles or a collection of JSON records can therefore become an entire website. This documentation is generated with those facilities.

Browser JavaScript

Include JavaScript whenever your site needs browser behaviour, such as search, audio playback, or a theme control. Sklair can build substantial SPAs as well as websites with normal page navigation.

For markup created after page load, runtime templates provide an optional small ES module. It clones native templates and fills their bindings once. It is not reactive and does not manage the surrounding document.