Initial structure for rendering a blog post stream.

src/command/build/render.rs

@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ impl SiteRenderer {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    pub(crate) async fn render_blog_stream(&self, config: &Config) -> Result<(), CustomError> {
+        // TODO: Actually render a blog stream to index.html
+
+        // Steps: sort blog posts by date, newest first
+        //
+        // Steps: group blog posts based on # of posts per page
+        //
+        // Steps: for each group, create a RenderBlogStream
+        //
+        // Steps: pass each RenderBlogStream to dust as the context to render index.html and any additional stream pages.
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     pub(crate) async fn render_stylesheets(&self) -> Result<(), CustomError> {
         let stylesheet_output_directory = self.output_directory.join("stylesheet");
         if !stylesheet_output_directory.exists() {

src/command/build/runner.rs

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn build_site(args: BuildArgs) -> Result<(), CustomError> {
         stylesheets,
     );
     renderer.render_blog_posts(&config).await?;
+    renderer.render_blog_stream(&config).await?;
     renderer.render_stylesheets().await?;
 
     Ok(())

src/context/blog_stream.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+use crate::config::Config;
+use crate::context::RenderDocumentElement;
+use crate::context::RenderRealFootnoteDefinition;
+use crate::error::CustomError;
+use crate::intermediate::BlogPost;
+
+use super::GlobalSettings;
+use super::PageHeader;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type")]
+#[serde(rename = "blog_stream")]
+pub(crate) struct RenderBlogStream {
+    global_settings: GlobalSettings,
+    page_header: Option<PageHeader>,
+    children: Vec<RenderBlogStreamEntry>,
+    older_link: Option<String>,
+    newer_link: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl RenderBlogStream {
+    pub(crate) fn new(
+        config: &Config,
+        output_directory: &Path,
+        output_file: &Path,
+        original: &Vec<BlogPost>,
+    ) -> Result<RenderBlogStream, CustomError> {
+        todo!()
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+pub(crate) struct RenderBlogStreamEntry {
+    /// The title that will be shown visibly on the page.
+    title: Option<String>,
+
+    self_link: Option<String>,
+
+    children: Vec<RenderDocumentElement>,
+
+    footnotes: Vec<RenderRealFootnoteDefinition>,
+}

src/context/mod.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ mod angle_link;
 mod ast_node;
 mod babel_call;
 mod blog_post_page;
+mod blog_stream;
 mod bold;
 mod center_block;
 mod citation;