Expansive Specifications

The Expansive product includes the following components:

• Expansive utility
• Access to catalog of extensions via Pak
• Documentation and manual page
• Source code

Feature Overview

• Layout pages to define the look and feel of site
• Partial pages to include replicated content
• Per-page meta data to control layouts and partials
• Integrated web server to serve content
• Watch for changes and automatically render site
• Ejscript templates for dynamic content
• Scripting support via change events
• Large suite of extensions for tooling scripts, images, stylesheets etc.
• Automatic sitemap creation
• Content transition pipeline
• Open plugin architecture

Performance

• Fast throughput (> processing >150 pages/sec)

Plugins

Expansive has an open extension framework for plugins. These plugins may provide processing for different file types or may provide custom tooling.

• Open extension framework for plugins via Javascript ES6
• exp-css — Process CSS files to select intelligently select or create minified versions. This plugin with automatically generate the required link HTML elements.
• exp-js — Process Javascript files to select intelligently select or create minified versions. This plugin will automatically generate the required script HTML elements.
• exp-less — Process Less files to create stylesheets.
• exp-gzip — Compress files.
• exp-esp — Process ESP pages and applications.
• exp-md — Process Markdown pages into HTML.
• exp-ng — Process Angular applications including annotation for dependency injection and bundling into a single file distribution.
• exp-sass — Process Sass files to create stylesheets.
• exp-shell — Process shell scripts and capture output as web pages.

Skeletons

Expansive provide pre-built collections of plugins and content as skeletons. These provide a fast-start to using Expansive with specific configurations.

• exp-html-skeleton — Basic skeleton
• exp-semantic-skeleton —
• esp-html-skeleton —
• esp-semantic-skeleton —

Dynamic Content

• ESP C-Language web framework
• CGI/1.1
• PHP

Ejscript

Documentation

• Extensive HTML Documentation
• Tour and Tutorials

Platform Support

• Linux (2.6)
• Windows (7, 8)
• MAC OS X (10.7+)

Other Features

• Binary Packaged installations for Windows and MAC OS X