💡 What Makes Slamhaus Different?
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Built Like a Game Engine
Slamhaus is architected with the same clarity and modularity you’d expect from a modern game engine. Every subsystem — parsing, rendering, templating, SEO — is designed for isolation and reusability. It avoids global state, favors explicit logic, and is cleanly written in C++17, making it easy to navigate and extend, even for large or unconventional projects.
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No JavaScript? No Problem.
With Emscripten support, Slamhaus lets you write frontend behavior in C++ and compile it directly to WebAssembly. Want a button that runs a function or a form that returns live feedback? Use @script — Slamhaus auto-generates the glue code.
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Markdown That Does More
Slamhaus extends the Markdown language itself — not with templates, but with expressive, human-readable tags. Define layouts with :section and :column. Add functional forms with ?input and ?button. Control metadata with $page and build interactivity with @script. It’s Markdown that writes HTML for you — smart, composable, and readable.
🎨 Slamhaus Features
Explore the core capabilities that make Slamhaus a fast, developer-friendly alternative to traditional site generators.
📝 Markdown In → Website Out
At the heart of Slamhaus is a simple promise: write Markdown, and get a complete HTML site — no templating language, no runtime. Just .slam, .smd, or .md files and a clean build output. You focus on your content and structure; Slamhaus handles the rest.
⚙️ Engineered in Modern C++
Unlike most static site tools that rely on scripting runtimes, Slamhaus is a compiled C++17 engine. This gives you speed, transparency, and control — especially for teams coming from game dev, systems programming, or embedded domains. The codebase is modular, familiar, and built for clarity.
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🧩 Extended Markdown Syntax
Slamhaus turns Markdown into a layout and logic language with a clean set of custom tags:
All fully parseable, all without leaving your Markdown editor.
🧠 WebAssembly-First Design
Slamhaus integrates seamlessly with WebAssembly via Emscripten. Write small C++ functions to handle events, then bind them to buttons, forms, or inputs with @script tags. Slamhaus compiles and wires everything for you — no JS glue code, no runtime hacks, just clean C++ compiled to fast, portable WASM.
🎨 Lightweight, Tweakable Themes
Forget bloat. Slamhaus includes a minimal CSS theme to get you started, then stays out of your way. All styles live in content/assets/theme/, and are merged + inlined at build time. Customize colors, spacing, breakpoints, or swap it out entirely — it's your call.
content/assets/theme/*.css
🔗 Smart Internal Link Rewriting
Write links the way you think — using .slam, .smd, or .md. Slamhaus will automatically convert all internal references to .html, even inside buttons, metadata, and nav structures. No broken links. No tedious find/replace.
📝 Free Forever — MIT Licensed
Slamhaus is licensed under MIT, meaning you can use it for personal, commercial, academic, or experimental projects with no restrictions. Fork it, brand it, modify it — it's yours.