Static Site Generators

Created: May 13, 2020 by Pradeep Gowda Updated: Mar 08, 2024 Tagged: static-sitegen · markdown · markup-languages

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.

“… 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

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.

Headless SSG

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

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.