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gutenberg
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
No you're absolutely right -- these are all headless CMSes, I did not actually complete the JAMstack, only the wrong piece -- I don't know what I was thinking, don't know what made me zoom in on CMSes so much, guess I think of them as more important than the front-end in a JAMstack.
As recompense, some lesser known options for the frontend part of the JAMstack that weren't mentioned in the original post:
- https://github.com/getzola/zola
- https://hexo.io/
- https://www.getblades.org/getting_started.html
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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I've switched away from Vue to using Alpine.js, which makes it easier to combine backend templates with frontend ones, but here's the repo back when I was using Vue: https://github.com/spotlightpa/poor-richard/tree/eb816cac807...
src/entrypoints/donate.js defined a custom element, which was included on layouts/donate-page/single.html and layouts/partials/get-src.html conditionally included the Vue component either with Parcel's dev server in testing or precompiled files in production.
It's not very different from what you'd do in any not-JS web framework.
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If you love building stuff in Rails, keep an eye on my project Sitepress at https://github.com/sitepress/sitepress (there's a project site too at https://sitepress.cc)
I built this because it was extremely difficult to embed Middleman or Jekyll into a Rails site. While I was building it, I discovered that Rails actually has a LOT of stuff in it already that make it work well for a static site compiler.
I run it in a few places, with the largest deployment at https://www.polleverywhere.com. At Poll Everywhere it's happily been serving up content pages for a few years. I've switched all of my personal static websites over to it as well.
Here's what's kind of crazy about Sitepress: you can use it to compile static websites -- OR -- you can embed it in rails and do things dynamically like display a "Login" vs "Logout" button state. The choice of "static" vs "dynamic" just isn't a big deal with Sitepress, you can have it both ways.
Last thing: I'm currently working on making Sitepress serve up Notion and Webflow content. This can be really helpful for teams that need to deal with multiple CMS formats from large teams.
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For me it was the license that made me not pick it: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1397.
A while ago I was picking a new SSG and I would have preferred something written in Python so I can hack on it more easily. I ended up moving on because of the license.
I am now very happily using Hugo.
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Think twice about building on top of Gridsome.
I love Gridsome, and it had tons of potential, but it's effectively a dead project. The maintainers haven't cut a new release since November 2020.[0] There's barely been any feature work since 2019.[1] Their Github repos have tons of PRs that have not been reviewed. There are serious site-killing bugs that have not been fixed for over a year.[2]
I really wanted this project to succeed. I asked to sponsor the project and volunteered working on their documentation for a few months, but it didn't seem to yield any new dev work.
The maintainers are extremely talented, and this is not a knock against them, but I just caution anyone against marrying themselves to a framework that's unlikely to have any ongoing maintenance.
[0] https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome/releases
[1] https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome/graphs/code-frequency
[2] https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome/issues/1032
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
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For any Swift devs needing to put together a webpage, check out Publish: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish
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I still like react-static. Minimalism on react:
https://github.com/react-static/react-static
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If you love building stuff in Rails…
Check out Bridgetown, "a Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era". It's come a long way since it forked from Jekyll a year ago [1].
[1]: https://www.bridgetownrb.com
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I also know that there is also Python-based Lektor [2], however I found Nikola more intriguing than this one.
[0] https://getnikola.com/
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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Btw there is a static page generator utilizing pandoc directly: hakyll[1]. Since it's configuration is done via haskell source code file, you need to be willing to learn a bit of haskell though.
[1] https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
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No you're absolutely right -- these are all headless CMSes, I did not actually complete the JAMstack, only the wrong piece -- I don't know what I was thinking, don't know what made me zoom in on CMSes so much, guess I think of them as more important than the front-end in a JAMstack.
As recompense, some lesser known options for the frontend part of the JAMstack that weren't mentioned in the original post:
- https://github.com/getzola/zola
- https://hexo.io/
- https://www.getblades.org/getting_started.html
