minima VS Hexo

I started with Jekyll's default, Minima[1], to get something working right away. But then i tweaked lots of stuff, copying things i liked from other blogs[2], so it no longer resembles that default look.

[1]: https://jekyll.github.io/minima/

you could make a _layouts directory in your project root (if you don't have one already) and copy over the minima layouts from the repo to adjust anything you need. Link: https://github.com/jekyll/minima/tree/master/_layouts

If you prefer to use Markdown, jekyll's default theme (example) for newly scaffolded websites is also quite clean.

( content originally cloned from https://github.com/jekyll/minima )

After that, we need to display the data. Jekyll uses a theme system. By default, the used theme is minima. The theme's files are not generated in the Jekyll projects, but you can override every theme's template by creating a file with the same name in the _layouts folder.

Download the latest version of social.html. You'll find it here

So before doing anything, we need to look at our minima theme repository. Please make sure you look at the branch of your current version. In my case, it is the 2.5 one that is installed (you can have this info in the Gemfile file), so I am looking at the 2.5-stable branch.

A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before!

Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week.

I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses markdown and supports tags. It has a lot of neat plugins that people have developed, too.

I like it so far!

https://github.com/hexojs/hexo

In my case, the latter is not possible because this blog is a static site, generated via Hexo and hosted on GitHub. It simply lacks a modifiable active server component.

Hexo — best lightweight SSG

Previously I've used Nuxt2 and even sooner - hexo.io

To make their creation easier, numerous open-source static websites generators are available: Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Hexo, etc. Most of the time, the content is managed through static (ideally Markdown) files or a Content API. Then, the generator requests the content, injects it in templates defined by the developer and generates a bunch of HTML files.

https://gohugo.io/ written in go, support md https://hexo.io/ written in node

Hexo's

I'm currently using Hexo, I write articles in markdown, commit them to a git repository and push them to Github. I then have a Github Action to bundle the static website and publish it on Github Pages, so I get free hosting 👌

There are also many alternatives for selecting Static-Side Generating blog framework such as Hexo, Gatsby, Next.js (more details here). We will pick Hexo as our framework because it is a fast, simple & powerful blog framework.

Some alternatives I'm considering learning instead of Gatsby are Jeckyll or Hexo.