SSGs through the ages: The ‘Reinvention’ era

• gutenberg

  32 11,608 8.6 Rust

  A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

  

  Vincent gets straight to the point in his announcement of ‘Gutenberg’ (later renamed to Zola).

• tera

  8 2,871 0.0 Rust

  A template engine for Rust based on Jinja2/Django

  Vincent had been working on his own templating engine, Tera in Rust, and thought building a static site generator would be a great way to further his knowledge of the language. Before long, he had created Gutenberg, an opinionated yet flexible way to build “all kinds of sites, from landing pages to knowledge bases, not only blogs.” Gutenberg launched with support for CommonMark for content, category and tag support, automatic RSS feeds, and a host of other features that made it a viable alternative to Hugo.

• Appwrite

  appwrite.io

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• docs

  2 1,367 9.6 Python

  Linode guides and tutorials. (by linode)

  

  Hugo has seen success with corporate customers, including 1Password, Linode Digital.gov, KeyCDN, and Let’s Encrypt, to name just a few. Bjørn Erik Pedersen took over as the lead maintainer in 2015 and continues to lead Hugo’s thriving community.

• Sculpin

  0 1,440 3.6 PHP

  Sculpin — Static Site Generator

  

  Sculpin

• Metalsmith

  1 7,806 0.0 JavaScript

  An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.

  

  Metalsmith

• Hexo

  3 37,464 6.7 JavaScript

  A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.

  

  Hexo

• Harp

  0 4,987 0.0 JavaScript

  Static Web Server/Generator/Bundler

  Harp

• Sonar

  www.sonarsource.com

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• go

  664 114,681 9.9 Go

  The Go programming language

  

  Build speed — Jekyll is notoriously slow and building sites. Hugo is written in Go, which is a compiled language and, according to its current leader maintainer, a “perfect match for many of the tasks that Hugo performs”. The result is Hugo’s ability to build tens of thousands of pages in seconds.

• Hugo

  175 69,217 0.0 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

  Hugo

• Composer

  60 27,857 9.2 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

  Beau Simensen was using Jekyll to create static sites and hit issues he created pull requests to fix. After months of inactivity on his pull requests, he grew frustrated and set out to build a new SSG. Beau had experience in PHP and thought, “Maybe I could rewrite Jekyll in PHP”. Symfony’s HTTP Kernel SSG could serve as the heart of the SSG, Composer was making waves as a PHP dependency manager, and Twig was a popular PHP templating language. He had all the building blocks he needed. And so, Sculpin was born.

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