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❄️ Freezed

A static site generator powered by the TYPO3 Fluid template engine.

Templates in, static files out. No database, no runtime, no surprises.

What is Freezed?

Freezed renders a folder of content and one or more themes into a plain static website using Fluid — the same templating engine that powers TYPO3 CMS. You write layouts, partials, sections and (optionally) custom ViewHelpers, and Freezed compiles everything to static HTML and assets in a public/ directory you can host anywhere.

content/ + themes/   ──►   freezed build   ──►   public/  (static HTML + assets)

Features

• Fluid templating — layouts, partials, sections and ViewHelpers.
• Stackable themes — drop themes into themes/; they layer and override cleanly.
• Content as folders — every page is a folder with a template and a variables.php.
• Asset pipeline — reference CSS/JS/images via the resource ViewHelper.
• Static files — anything in static/ is copied verbatim into the build.
• Build hooks — run shell commands before and after a build.
• Zero runtime — the output is just files; host it on any static host or CDN.

Quick start

Start a new site (recommended)

Use the starter skeleton, which scaffolds a working site for you:

composer create-project neuedaten/freezed-skeleton my-site
cd my-site
./vendor/bin/freezed build
# open public/index.html

The skeleton also ships a Docker dev environment (docker compose up --build). See neuedaten/freezed-skeleton.

Add Freezed to an existing project

composer require neuedaten/freezed
./vendor/bin/freezed install   # scaffold content/, themes/, config
./vendor/bin/freezed build     # render into public/

Project structure

A Freezed site is just a handful of folders:

my-site/
├─ content/              # your pages, grouped by content type
│  └─ pages/
│     └─ home/
│        ├─ index.html   # a Fluid template
│        └─ variables.php # variables for this page
├─ themes/               # one or more stackable themes
│  └─ 00_default/
│     ├─ templates/{layouts,partials,templates}/
│     ├─ assets/{css,js,images}/
│     └─ static/
├─ static/               # files copied verbatim into the build
├─ public/               # generated output (git-ignored)
└─ freezed.config.php    # content types, default variables, build hooks

Documentation

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or newer
• Composer
• PHP extensions: mbstring, dom (both ship with most PHP builds)

This repository

This is the engine — the freezed CLI and rendering pipeline, published as the Composer package neuedaten/freezed.

.
├─ bin/freezed            # CLI entry point
├─ Classes/               # PSR-4: Neuedaten\Freezed\
│  ├─ Commands/           # install / compile commands
│  ├─ Domain/             # models + repositories (content, themes, resources)
│  ├─ Services/           # config, compile, render, file, static, scripts, log
│  └─ ViewHelpers/        # ResourceViewHelper
├─ assets/                # default theme + example content + default config
├─ includes/config.php    # built-in path defaults
└─ docs/                  # documentation

A ready-to-build starter project lives in the companion repo neuedaten/freezed-skeleton.

Status

Freezed is in beta. The build pipeline is stable; the API may still change before 1.0. Issues and feedback are very welcome.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later © Bastian Schwabe / neuedaten