Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator

• notes.eatonphil.com

  5 39 0.0 HTML

• scroll

  34 329 6.5 JavaScript

  Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown.

  

Try https://scroll.pub

It uses Scrolldown instead of markdown, which is simpler, cleaner, and incredibly extensible.

The command line app has just a few commands—-and they all take zero params.

A site is just a single folder, and because content is written in Scrolldown, it works great with git and is great for content sites or collaborative strongly typed databases.

It fast, I get about 300 pages per second, and not a lot of code (sub 1k excluding dependencies), and the code is tested.

It’s in nodejs now but no reason scroll can’t be language agnostic.

I’ve been around SSGs for over a decade and designing this one to be simple, reliable, and to stay out of the creators’ way. I think it could be the last SSG you’ll ever need.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• personal-site

  2 9 4.4 HTML

  Discontinued Personal website with templates coded in pure HTML/CSS; posts written in markdown and compiled with a custom bash script using pandoc (by jstrieb)

I use a variation of this command in a bash script to generate my entire static site.[0] A friend improved upon my script with a Go implementation that does some more advanced stuff, but still compiles Markdown to HTML using this command under the hood.[1]

0: https://github.com/jstrieb/personal-site/blob/master/compile...

1: https://github.com/lsnow99/dudu

• dudu

  1 3 0.0 Go

I use a variation of this command in a bash script to generate my entire static site.[0] A friend improved upon my script with a Go implementation that does some more advanced stuff, but still compiles Markdown to HTML using this command under the hood.[1]

0: https://github.com/jstrieb/personal-site/blob/master/compile...

1: https://github.com/lsnow99/dudu

• pages-uswds-gatsby

  1 37 3.2 JavaScript

  A template for Federalist that uses Gatsby and USWDS 2.0

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

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