Top 7 Go blog-engine Projects

Hugo

548 72,452 9.8 Go

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

Project mention: Creating excerpts in Astro | dev.to | 2024-03-14

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.

ink

1 1,056 3.7 Go

An elegant static blog generator (by InkProject)
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
gostatic

4 442 2.3 Go

Fast static site generator

Project mention: Gojekyll – 20x faster Go port of jekyll | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-26

another good one thats even smaller:
https://github.com/piranha/gostatic

gojekyll

3 329 6.4 Go

A fast Go implementation of the Jekyll blogging engine

Project mention: Gojekyll – 20x faster Go port of jekyll | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-26

No, plugins are not supported in any meaningful way. With Jekyll I can write "_plugins/foo.rb" and put any code in there, and even monkey-patch core Jekyll code.[1] I can't do this with GoJekyll, because Go doesn't really provide a good mechanism for this.
What it does have is a bunch of optional features that are typically provided by plugins in Jekyll[2], but this is a very different meaning of "plugins" that Jekyll has.
[1]: Whether you should be doing this is a different issue, but I would argue that for a static website builder it's fine, especially since you can just lock the Jekyll version with little downsides, and it doesn't change that often in the first place.
[2]: A list of them: https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll/blob/main/docs/plugins.m...

smallblog

1 35 7.0 Go

Flat file markdown blogging system with filesystem watch and extended markdown support
gozer

1 25 8.0 Go

Fast, opinionated and simple static site generator in a single static binary.

Project mention: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-06

Sounds like any static site generator supporting Markdown will do.
- Jekyll: the OG, but requires a ruby toolchain.
- Hugo: compiles to a single static binary, but you may have to get used to its (Go text/html) templating.
- Zola: also compiles to a single static binary, but uses Jinja-like templating.
- Gozer [^1]: my own, like Hugo, but 1000x simpler. I rolled my own because I wanted something that didn't move under me in the next 10 years and just because it was fun and easy enough to build.
[1]: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/gozer

sitegen

1 4 4.2 Go

Sitegen is a simple but flexible static site generator. (by altlimit)
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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