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Jekyll | Lektor | |
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253 | 20 | |
48,232 | 3,764 | |
0.5% | 0.3% | |
8.9 | 7.7 | |
18 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
Ruby | Python | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Jekyll
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Creating excerpts in Astro
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.
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Craft Your GitHub Profile Page in 60 Seconds with Zero Code, Absolutely Free
Jekyll
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.
Here's my personal blog, set up in 2019 on github pages (free hosting), built with Jekyll [1] which supports markdown, code snippets, tags, sections and more.
For a technical person, it does the job pretty well and almost without any maintenance effort:
- Github: https://github.com/TCGV/Blog
- Live: https://thomasvilhena.com/
In future, if you want to move from Jekyll to something else, you just have to worry about that `_posts` and `_assets` folder. They may have different naming convention but you can just config-managed it or change it to your choice. This is why I suggested owning that two yourself.
You also may not worry about FrontMatter[3] (meta in the header) and its accompanying jazz by asking Jekyll to use the plugins `jekyll-optional-front-matter` and `jekyll-titles-from-headings`. These comes as part of the officially supported Jekyll plugins[4] by Github. That way, you are just writing a human-readable plain-text spiced up with Markdown and readable by almost every other Static Site Generator.
Now, play with the `_config.yml` that Jekyll generates for you from the theme above to define your post dates, navigation, and others. Jekyll is one of the OGs — the Gandalf of Static Site Generators. If you have a problem, someone somewhere has solved that.
Did I missed something? I was supposed to write a blog article for my website on this one and this comment will serve as my starting bullet points.
1. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
3. https://frontmatter.codes/docs/markdown
4. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
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Where are the layouts!? And where is the site object loaded from? (Chirpy Theme)
"Using the Chirpy theme for Jekyll."
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Any FOSS to make HTML websites for self-hosting?
I would suggest looking into static site generators. Some popular examples, which are used myself are: - Hugo: https://gohugo.io/ - Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com
- How do i replicate GTFOBins layout ?
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How To Choose the Best Static Site Generator and Deploy it to Kinsta for Free
In terms of GitHub stars, SSGs like Next.js, Hugo, Gatsby, Docusaurus, Nuxt.js, and Jekyll top the list. Some popular SSGs even host conferences and workshops, providing resources and networking opportunities for those looking to explore more advanced topics in depth.
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How to run Jekyll on Kubernetes
I created my blog using Jekyll, a great open-source tool that can transform your markdown content into a simple, old-fashioned-but-trendy, static site. What are the advantages of this approach? The site is super-light, super-fast, super-secure and SEO-friendly. Of course, it’s not always the best solution, but for some use cases, like a simple personal blog, it’s really a good option.
Lektor
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Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO
Guess I'm one of the annoying users who complained when armin's Lektor (https://github.com/lektor/lektor) started going dormant back when, but I loved it for a while. I'm on Astro now, but a big thanks for helping a younger version for me.
- Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub
- Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
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5 Best Static Site Generators in Python
Lektor is a modern and flexible static content management system that utilizes Python as its core language. It comes with an intuitive web-based admin interface, making it easy for content creators to manage and update the site. Lektor supports a variety of content types and has an active community that contributes to its continuous improvement.
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
Lektor CMS is sort of a prototype-ish thing doing this: https://www.getlektor.com/
It has (used to have? Can't find them on the site now) pre-packaged binaries that you would drop into a folder structure generated by the technically-minded person, and the content editor can simply click on that binary, which opens the backend of the CMS in the web browser, make changes and click deploy.
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Flask CMS - Wordpress alike
There have been several Flask-based CMS's but I don't remember most of them. IIRC Lektor is based on Flask.
- Why isn’t there a python version of Jekyll / Hugo
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A SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites
Static hosting could be enough for many sites and one could combine the technical and UX advantages of your dynamic interface with the advantages of static sites for security and distribution.
I found that useful when i worked with https://www.getlektor.com/ years ago. In lektor the dynamic part runs on a users desktop machine, but it of course wouldn't need to.
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Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off
Lektor is Python based and Just Works, but it is far off the beaten track… https://www.getlektor.com/
- Static Site Generator Request
What are some alternatives?
Pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Next.js - The React Framework