waj 0.3.0

Store a web site in a package
waj-0.3.0 is not a library.

What is waj

Waj is a website container format based on the jubako container format.

It allow you to create, and serve website archive.

Waj (and Jubako) is in active development.

If you know zim file format, waj is pretty closed from it except few (important) features:

  • No book's metadata stored.
  • No title index.
  • No fulltext search.

How it works

Jubako is a versatile container format, allowing to store data, compressed or not, in a structured way. It main advantage (apart from its versability) is that is designed to allow quick retrieval of data fro the archive without needing to uncompress the whole archive.

Waj use the jubako format and create waj archive which:

  • Store content compressed.
  • Can do random access on the waj archive to allow quick serving to a request

Install waj

Binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available for every release. You can also install arx using Cargo:

cargo install waj

Use waj

Create an archive

Creating an archive is simple :

Assuming you have a directory my_directory containing a static website:

waj create -o my_archive.waj -1 --strip-prefix "my_directory/" my_directory

It will create one file : my_archive.waj, which will contains all content in the my_directory directory. As we don't want my_directory/ being part of the url's path, we removing it from the entries pathes.

Listing the content of an archive

You can list the content of the archive with:

waj list my_archive.waj

Serving the archive

waj binary provides a small server.

waj serve my_archive.waj localhost:8080

It will serve the content in the archive. Routing is pretty simple:

  • It removes any trailing / in the request and search for it.
  • If there is a query string (?) remove it from the path and search for the new path.
  • If (original) path (without the ?) ends with a /, search for <path> + "index.html".

For example :

  • / -> search for `` and index.html
  • /foo/?value=bar -> search for foo/?value=bar, foo/, foo/index.html

If your main page is not index.html (let's say main), you can create a redirection `` to main using the `-m main` option at waj creation.

Zim2Waj

There is a small tool at https://github.com/jubako/zim2waj to convert any existing zim file into a waj.