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Top 5 Python Pelican Projects
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https://gohugo.io/
It's written in go but what's great about it, unlike many competitors written in Javascript or Python, is that it is just a simple binary you download and run, you do not need to get a PhD in the go build system to start a web site also it is crazy fast. It can publish a site to something like S3 or Azure Storage behind a CDN and you do not have to worry about anything other than paying the storage and bandwidth bills.
Myself I've been procrastinating on getting myself a blog and my take is Hugo is not customizable enough for me without learning a lot of Go, so I have looked at are either Python-based or oriented towards scientific publishing oriented systems such as
https://getpelican.com/
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/
https://quarto.org/
(I want to write stuff like https://ontology2.com/essays/PropertiesColorsAndThumbnails.h...)
I've given this list to people in your shoes and they usually react with information overload
https://jamstack.org/generators/
part of that is that there are 355 generators (there have to be some good ones in there somewhere) but it also uses the kind of miscommunication patterns we're used to in webtech where, for instance, you'd think they are pushing Javascript down your throat (the "J" stands for Javascript but the generators I've mentioned generate mostly HTML with just a little Javascript.)
Pick something simple and run with it, if I did that 2 years ago I'd be blogging now.
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This Week in Rust
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m.css
A no-nonsense, no-JavaScript CSS framework, site and documentation theme for content-oriented websites
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python Pelican discussion
Python Pelican related posts
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Ask HN: Best Minimal Blog Site?
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Using GitHub as a (bad) blog platform
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Patterns for Personal Web Sites
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Pelican: Static site generator written in Python. Requires no database
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Creating a Python Wiki application
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Limiting Doxygen content width
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Embarking on first "big boy" Django project. Looking for some general advice / guidance / success stories / whatever.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Pelican projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pelican | 12,866 |
| 2 | this-week-in-rust | 2,329 |
| 3 | m.css | 420 |
| 4 | kevin-deldycke-blog | 36 |
| 5 | pelican-data-files | 7 |
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