Metalsmith
Hugo
Metalsmith | Hugo | |
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8 | 549 | |
7,820 | 72,657 | |
0.0% | 1.0% | |
6.6 | 9.8 | |
24 days ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Metalsmith
- Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
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Top ten popular static site generators (SSG) in 2023
Metalsmith — the best customizable SSG
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who is self-hosting a static website and what are you using to build it?
I use Metalsmith. Been happy with it. I build my site into a self-contained nginx docker image.
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Configuration error even if nothing changed since last successful deploy
const Metalsmith = require('metalsmith') const markdown = require('@metalsmith/markdown') const layouts = require('metalsmith-layouts') const permalinks = require('@metalsmith/permalinks') const collections = require('metalsmith-collections') Metalsmith(__dirname) .metadata({ sitename: 'Website Name', description: "Website description.", generator: 'Metalsmith', url: 'https://metalsmith.io/' }) .source('./src') .destination('./build') // .clean(true) .use( collections({ projects: 'pages/*.md', reverse: true, refer: true }) ) .use(markdown()) .use(permalinks()) .use( layouts({ engineOptions: { helpers: { formattedDate: function (date) { return new Date(date).toLocaleDateString() } } } }) ) .build(function (err, files) { if (err) throw err })
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Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site
I also started to move to hugo, but they didn't merge the pr [2] which would have helped in the transition. :(
The look is still similar to what it was in the beginning, in terms of colors at least.
[1] https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith
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SSGs through the ages: The ‘Reinvention’ era
Metalsmith
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Why I built my own static site generator
A static site generator I've been enjoying lately (and using for my blog) is Metalsmith: https://metalsmith.io/
It feel like it's the best of both worlds, because it's simple to learn and customize, but there are plugins for the things you don't want to spend time writing yourself.
For example, I'm using plugins to: check for broken links, generate an RSS feed, and run a test server with automatic reloading.
But then I was able to easily add in my own code to handle relative links, generate Graphviz diagrams, and format dates.
One other recommendation: I hated almost every template language I ran across (Hugo's, Liquid, Nunjucks, EJS), but I'm thrilled with the simplicity of Handlebars (https://handlebarsjs.com/), although it is a bit limiting and the "block helper with parameters" syntax is strange (perhaps an indicator that I'm trying to do too much in the templating language!).
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Zola, A fast static site generator in a single binary
I believe Metalsmith [1] is trying that approach
[1] https://metalsmith.io/
Hugo
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Building static websites
At one point though I realized there is a scaling problem with my build minutes. I knew that golang has considerably faster builds and in my case the easy fix is swapping over to Hugo.
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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
Hugo
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Top 5 Open-Source Documentation Development Platforms of 2024
Hugo is a popular static site generator specifically designed to create websites and documentation lightning-fast. Its minimalist approach, emphasis on speed, and ease of use have made it popular among developers, technical writers, and anybody looking to construct high-quality websites without the complexity of typical CMS platforms.
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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.
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Get People Interested in Contributing to Your Open Project
Create the technical documentation of your project You can use any of the following options: * A wiki, like the ArchWiki that uses MediaWiki * Read the Docs, used by projects like Setuptools. Check Awesome Read the Docs for more examples. * Create a website * Create a blog, like the documentation of Blowfish, a theme for Hugo.
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Writing a SSG in Go
Doing this made me appreciate existing SSGs like Hugo and Next.js even more👏👏
- Hugo 0.122 supports LaTeX or TeX typesetting syntax directly from Markdown
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Why Blogging Platforms Suck
I suggest hugo: https://gohugo.io/
Generates a completely static website from MD (and other formats) files; also handles themes (including a lot of them rendering well on mobile), and different types of content - posts, articles, etc. - depending on the theme.
It's open source and, being completely static, cheap as fuck to self host.
What are some alternatives?
docsify - 🃏 A magical documentation site generator.
astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Wintersmith - A flexible static site generator
MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown.
Phenomic
Pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Brunch - :fork_and_knife: Web applications made easy. Since 2011.
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown