Ask HN: Static Site (not blog) Generator?

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  1. astro

    The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

  2. AppSignal

    AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

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  3. mdBook

    Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

  4. eleventy πŸ•šβš‘οΈ

    A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

  5. awesome-static-generators

    A curated list of static web site generators.

  6. Docusaurus

    Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

    I think this is more a question of how you want to create and store your content and templates, like whether they exist as a bunch of Markdown files, database entries, a third-party API, etc. They're typically made to work in some sort of toolchain or ecosystem.

    For example, if you're working in the React world, Next.js can actually output static HTML pages that work fine without JS... just use the pages router and a static export (https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/guides/static-exports). That still lets you use all the power of JS and expressiveness of React components, minus the interactivity, of course (if you don't want JS). But you could still pass in components and such. It's a bit like writing serverside includes in the PHP or Perl days. The benefit of using Next is its incredible popularity; probably whatever question you have, someone else has already asked and ten people have answered it. The downsides are its complexity and its frequent changes; answers from just a year or two ago are probably irrelevant to the current version, and there is a steep learning curve at first. But in SSG mode with the pages router, it's pretty straightforward, and the filesystem-based routing makes it very clear what the final directory structure would be.

    For Markdown there's https://docusaurus.io/

  7. Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

    Try Hugo[1]. In depends on a template you choose alone whether Hugo will generate a landing page, a website, a blog, etc.

    [1] https://gohugo.io

  8. github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

    My favorite static site generator is Org mode[1] for Emacs. Org files are written using a feature-rich lightweight markup language[2] that is much more powerful than Markdown (e.g., plain text spreadsheets). Org files can be exported to HTML[3].

    The reason I prefer Org for static site generation is not because I already use Emacs. I actually started using Emacs about 20 years ago specifically to use Org mode.

    [1] https://orgmode.org/

    [2] https://orgmode.org/features.html

    [3] https://orgmode.org/manual/HTML-Export.html

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