Static Site Generators

Top 23 Static Site Generator Open-Source Projects

  • docsify

    πŸƒ A magical documentation site generator.

  • Project mention: Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation | dev.to | 2024-04-04

    Docsify is frequently updated; the latest release was on June 24, 2023, and the most recent update was on December 17, 2023. It is MIT-licensed and has an active Discord community.

  • mdBook

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

  • Project mention: Doks – Build a Docs Site | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-05
  • SurveyJS

    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.

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  • gutenberg

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

  • Project mention: Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola! | dev.to | 2024-04-02

    So after shopping around a bit I found a simple, dependency-less static site generator called Zola. The lack of dependencies sounded very attractive after all the headaches trying to update my Gatsby modules. I wanted to give Zola a try and see what tradeoffs I would need to make coming form a React-based framework to this Rust-based generator.

  • Octopress

    Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. It’s easy to configure and easy to deploy. Sweet huh?

  • Metalsmith

    An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for Node.js

  • Project mention: Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-03
  • Harp

    Static Web Server/Generator/Bundler

  • Expose

    A simple static site generator for photoessays

  • WorkOS

    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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  • Assemble

    Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at web development! Used by thousands of projects for rapid prototyping, themes, scaffolds, boilerplates, e-books, UI components, API documentation, blogs, building websites/static site generator, an alternative to Jekyll for gh-pages and more! Gulp- and grunt-friendly.

  • gray-matter

    Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

  • Project mention: Building a flat-file CMS with Angular | dev.to | 2024-03-05

    Writing in markdown is super convenient, and supported by just about any text editor. To convert these .md files to browser-ready HTML, I wrote a simple little Node.js script using two great npm packages called gray-matter and showdown.

  • Wintersmith

    A flexible static site generator

  • Project mention: Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-29
  • DocPad

    Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft powerful static sites quicker than ever before.

  • jigsaw

    Simple static sites with Laravel’s Blade.

  • Project mention: Jigsaw – Static Sites for Laravel Developers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-20
  • Sculpin

    Sculpin β€” Static Site Generator

  • Couscous

    Couscous is good.

  • front-matter

    Extract YAML front matter from strings

  • codex.docs

    Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem

  • Project mention: Fixing the nested pages limit within Codex Docs | /r/selfhosted | 2023-12-06
  • Orchid

    Build and deploy beautiful documentation sites that grow with you (by orchidhq)

  • Charge

    ⚑️ An opinionated, zero-config static site generator.

  • Spress

    PHP Static site generator (by spress)

  • Cleaver

    πŸ”₯πŸ”ͺ A blazing-fast static site generator using Laravel's Blade templating engine (by aschmelyun)

  • Sandra.Snow

    Jekyll inspired static site generation for .NET

  • Wyam

    A modular static content and static site generator.

  • PineDocs

    A fast and lightweight site for viewing files

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source Static Site Generator projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 docsify 26,611
2 mdBook 16,669
3 gutenberg 12,673
4 Octopress 9,332
5 Metalsmith 7,822
6 Harp 4,988
7 Expose 4,360
8 Assemble 4,219
9 gray-matter 3,775
10 Wintersmith 3,497
11 DocPad 3,051
12 jigsaw 2,089
13 Sculpin 1,456
14 Couscous 839
15 front-matter 663
16 codex.docs 580
17 Orchid 508
18 Charge 423
19 Spress 375
20 Cleaver 285
21 Sandra.Snow 235
22 Wyam 142
23 PineDocs 141

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