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Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites.

It is often recommended as a publishing companion to obsidian, which is how I use it.

I publish this site using Quartz and cloudflare's workers.

Notes

If you want a statically rendered html (e.g: this page to appear in the directory listing (e.g.: /kannada ), you can create a corresponding .md file for the .html and fill in the title, date, and optionally tags fields.

Quartz sites

• https://sanjeed.in

See also Quartz showcase

Some notes and links on Static Site Generators (SSG).

A "hello world" program for the 2010's (and 2020s).

Articles

Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator; Nov 2023.

The understated innovation of static site generators

Smaller Static Sites with New Formats - 2022. Optimizing Fonts, Images etc using newer formats and tools.

Elements Of a Great Markup Language

"... static site generator which takes a bunch of input documents, a custom conversion script, and outputs a bunch of HTML files."

low touch - hosted SSG

• prose.sh -- a blog platform for hackers. scp blog.md pros.sh:/ and boom. First create an account by logging in to ssh new@prose.sh.

Desktop SSG

Publii - Open-Source CMS for Static Site

Static site generators

roman-kashitsyn/mmapped.blog that powers mmapped.blog is a Go program that implements? subset of latex and converts it to HTML. See the "blogware" source code.

Kitten: Home A 💕 Small Web development kit. Build using #html, #css , and #javascript . Progressively enhance with Streaming HTML and #htmx

jemdoc -- light text-based markup language designed for creating websites. Based on Asciidoc. Has #latex support for math, but the equations are rendered as static images, not MathJax etc.,. Appears to be popular with academics.

JBake - Java based open source static site/blog generator -- this is actually surprisingly smooth.

nuex/zodiac: A static website generator written in awk and sh.

Makefile-Based Static Website Generator

Makefile and discount powered blog

Static site generator with rsync and lowdown - Roman Zolotarev [SSG]

kambrium/dssg: A static site generator written in D

sysgears/grain: Static Web Site Building Framework For Groovy that uses ASCIIdoctor

Static site generators need less rigid content APIs | Hacker News

Hammer for Mac 6.9 - Available Now

jeremycw/mfbg: Mother F*ing Blog Generator -- a Makefile + pandoc.

Home - Styx Static Site Generator -- The Purely Functional Static Site Generator. Styx is a functional static site generator based on the Nix package manager.

srid/rib-sample: Sample site for the Rib static site generator

Pelican 4.2.0 — Pelican 4.2.0 documentation with m.css looks very good.

bastibe/org-static-blog: A static site generator using org-mode

Lume, the static site generator for Deno - Lume

jorge  is a personal (small + opinionated) site generator inspired by Jekyll, written in Go, with org-mode and markdown support.

Static site generator for Django - Django Distill

Headless SSG

• Rspress -- Rust based.

• ponzu-cms/ponzu: Headless CMS with automatic JSON API. Featuring auto-HTTPS from Let's Encrypt, HTTP/2 Server Push, and flexible server framework written in Go.

  go get -u github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu/...

Deployments

surge.sh:

• Build and automatically deploy a React site – Joshua Tjhin – Medium

Examples of surge.sh sites:

• http://reasonablern.surge.sh/

• See my surge.sh pages

Commenting systems

• Various ways to include comments on your static site; Jan 2018.
• utterances -- A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments.
• umputun/remark: comment engine - Social login via Google, Twitter, Facebook, GitHub and Yandex. Markdown support with friendly formatter toolbar. Moderator can remove comments and block users

Search for static sites

• tinysearch/tinysearch 🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm

Not exactly SSG

• vhodges/stitcherd: Dynamic content for mostly static sites.

Crazy / Fun static site generators

• https://github.com/technomancy/technomancy.us - built using m4 macros, and a Makefile.
• this uses mdoc, install etc., to produce https://text.causal.agency/001-make.txt.
• soupault -- is a static website generator based on HTML rewriting.

Typst

Rheo? is an typesetting and static site engine for Typst.