Hugo
The world’s fastest framework for building websites. (by gohugoio)
Jekyll
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby (by jekyll)
Hugo | Jekyll | |
---|---|---|
593 | 278 | |
81,577 | 50,216 | |
1.8% | 0.6% | |
9.8 | 9.0 | |
8 days ago | 16 days ago | |
Go | Ruby | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Hugo
Posts with mentions or reviews of Hugo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-21.
-
Hacking with mdBook
A few days back, I wrote a blog post about static site generators, in particular how I decided to migrate my blog from Zola to Hugo. One of my points was to be able to hack my own content before generating the final HTML.
-
Why I am Migrating From Zola Back to Hugo
This post is a summary of my recent decision to go back to Hugo after using Zola. I also report on how LLM assistants with Web access can aid in such decisions, not as an authority but as a research assistant.
-
How to Migrate Technical Documentation: Tools, Checklist, and Tips
Hugo is a fast and flexible static site generator built in Go, known for its speed and large theme ecosystem. It supports markdown, taxonomies, multilingual content, and powerful templating with minimal dependencies. Hugo is highly performant and well-suited for building large-scale documentation sites. It’s ideal for teams seeking speed and customization with minimal runtime requirements.
-
Ask HN: Static Site (not blog) Generator?
Try Hugo[1]. In depends on a template you choose alone whether Hugo will generate a landing page, a website, a blog, etc.
[1] https://gohugo.io
-
🥳 We built the cli of our dreams to send sms ❣️
The content of the guide lives in a single Markdown file, content/_index.md. The website is built using Hugo.
-
Add Pagefind Search to Hugo
Every PKMS/BASB needs a search functionality. Ever since I've created brainfck to host my own collection of thoughts/ideas/resources (aka Zettelkasten) I wanted to be able to actually search within my collection of org-roam based notes. Meanwhile for all my sites I own (this blog, my CV/portfolio, brainfck and defersec) I use hugo. All of them didn't have proper search capabilities. That's why I was looking for a proper way to include search functionalities without any major effort.
-
Deploy HUGO website to Amazon S3 using Pulumi.
A fast and flexible static site generator built with love by bep, spf13, and friends in Go.
-
Fast-Track Your Static Site: Deploying Hugo with Pulumi on AWS S3
This project demonstrates how to deploy a static website using Hugo and Pulumi on AWS S3. Hugo is a fast static site generator, and Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows you to define cloud resources using TypeScript. The site is deployed to an S3 bucket configured as a static website, with public access enabled for viewing.
- Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
-
Setup a blog with Hugo and Github Pages
It was long my desire to write a blog with stuff that interests me. Lately i was studying Golang and i came across Hugo which is a really nice and fast site generation utility. This was a great opportunity to start my own blog by using Hugo and Github Pages in order to host it. Why?
Jekyll
Posts with mentions or reviews of Jekyll.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-17.
-
Jekyll auto posts from YouTube feeds
I wanted to automate this boring and repetitive workflow: my idea is that every time a YouTube video is published on my channel I want to have an associated post on my personal Jekyll blog.
-
Building PicoSSG: 'Just Enough Code'
The static site generator (SSG) landscape is crowded with feature-rich but increasingly complex solutions. As I looked at and used tools like lume, 11ty, lektor, or jekyll, I found myself drowning in configuration options, plugins, and middleware. What started as a simple desire to convert Markdown content into HTML had evolved into learning complex frameworks with steep learning curves.
-
Why I am Migrating From Zola Back to Hugo
Jekyll
- Jekyll Github Pages Website
-
How to create a blog with Quartz, GitHub, and Cloudflare
If you don't want to use Jekyll as your static site generator for GitHub Pages and you want to have a custom domain for your GitHub Pages. This post is for you!
-
Blogging with Obsidian and Jekyll
Jekyll is a static site generator that transforms Markdown files into a fully functional website. Everything is generated into plain HTML, which makes it simple to deploy on platforms like GitHub Pages.
- Jekyll v4.4.0 Released
-
Create a Blogging Platform With No Backend (Zero Hosting Fee)
Obviously, there are a dozen choices for generating static websites (efficiently and quickly), from the classic Jekyll to the new Next.js. And you are good to go with any of them as long as your confident with it. I choose 11ty because:
-
Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll
That would be an improvement, but it still wouldn't be equivalent to what you can do with Ruby and Jekyll. For example I do [1] so I don't need to put dates in my post names, which also fixes a bug [2] I encountered but was never fixed.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68287682/660921
[2]: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/8707
-
It's easy to dev blog
In your repository settings you need to turn on GitHub Pages to make it pull Jekyll content (that's the magic✨ default GitHub Pages build tool) from your GitHub repository.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Hugo and Jekyll you can also consider the following projects:
toxiproxy - :alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Postman - CLI tool for batch-sending email via any SMTP server.
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.