Basics

Toucan themes are typically located in the src/themes directory.

A theme consists of the following three components:

• Assets
• Mustache templates
• Content types

Here’s a tree view of the directory structure:

.
├── contents
└── themes
    └── default
        ├── assets
        ├── templates
        └── types

The default theme, located in the src/themes/default folder, is used when rendering the site. However, this can be modified via the configuration file.

Assets

Each theme can provide static asset files within the assets folder. All files inside the assets directory will be recursively copied to the root folder of the generated site.

Templates

Toucan uses the Mustache template engine to render HTML from Markdown files. These templates are located in the templates folder and use the .mustache extension.

To reference a template file in the front matter of your content, remove the file extension and replace slashes with dots in the file path:

template: "pages.home" 
# References:
# pages/home.mustache

If Toucan cannot find a template by reference, it will emit a warning during site generation.

Content Types

A content type serves as a template for your content. A theme can provide multiple content types. For instance, a blog site might need content types for posts, authors, and tags.