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Static Site Generators

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  2. low touch - hosted SSG
  3. Desktop SSG
  4. Static site generators
  5. Headless SSG
  6. Deployments
  7. Commenting systems
  8. Search for static sites
  9. Not exactly SSG
  10. Crazy / Fun static site generators
  11. Typst

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

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

Deployments

surge.sh:

Examples of surge.sh sites:

Commenting systems

Search for static sites

Not exactly SSG

Crazy / Fun static site generators

Typst

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

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