SSGs through the ages: The ‘After Jekyll’ era

• WordPress

  919 18,745 9.9 PHP

  WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

  

Wordpress is probably the most common blog software. I didn’t really like it, because it’s written in php, and because I recently became interested in static site generators.

• Sass

  199 14,902 8.8 TypeScript

  Sass makes CSS fun!

  

Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.

• 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.

  

• pandoc

  420 32,312 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

It has tight integration with pandoc — pandoc is the Swiss Army knife of file conversions. You could write your content in Jira Wiki and output it as a PDF or Asciidoc to HTML. It supports many different formats allowing you to write and output in the languages you need.

• Middleman

  15 7,019 7.8 Ruby

  Hand-crafted frontend development

  

Middleman

• Jekyll

  253 48,265 8.7 Ruby

  :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

  

Jekyll

• hakyll

  9 2,645 6.7 Haskell

  A static website compiler library in Haskell

Hakyll

• Puts Debuggerer

  3,148 91 5.5 Ruby

  Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

Tom Preston-Werner founded GitHub in 2008 with his cofounders Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon. 2008 was a busy year for Tom. Nine months after founding GitHub, in December 2008, he launched Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• Compass

  5 6,734 0.0 CSS

  Compass is no longer actively maintained. Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

  

Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.

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