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Top 23 Static Site Generator Open-Source Projects
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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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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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gutenberg
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
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stencil
A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, and traditional web developers from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.
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nextra
Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.
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hugo-blox-builder
😍 EASILY BUILD THE WEBSITE YOU WANT - NO CODE, JUST MARKDOWN BLOCKS! 使用块轻松创建任何类型的网站 - 无需代码。 一个应用程序，没有依赖项，没有 JS
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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.
Project mention: @matstack/remix-adonisjs VS Next.js - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/remix-adonisjs | 2024-04-24next.js is a very popular React framework. remix-adonisjs includes more functionality through the AdonisJS backend ecosystem, and should be easier to self-host and self-manage.
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.
A Gatsby site uses Gatsby, which leverages React and GraphQL to create fast and optimized web experiences. Gatsby is often used for building static websites, progressive web apps (PWAs), and even full-blown dynamic web applications.
Today we are looking at Error Handling when building websites with Nuxt and Storyblok as CMS. If you haven't tried the two tools, go check out one of the awesome tutorials. It's a perfect match for all your projects.
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.
Astro is the new hot new web framework on the block. All the cool kids are using it. I've recently given up, drank the Kool-Aid, and gone all in on it.
Project mention: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-06A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before!
Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week.
I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses markdown and supports tags. It has a lot of neat plugins that people have developed, too.
I like it so far!
https://github.com/hexojs/hexo
Slate (Free)
Material Mk-Docs by Martin Donath works well if you prefer python.
Following one of the comments in this thread I reviewed two other products in this space - https://www.staticcms.org/ and https://decapcms.org/ - and it looks like the webpages are almost a direct copy of one another, one in dark mode and one in light mode.
I'm a technical product marketer, and I find these type of landing page copying amusing to no end.
This post outlines the steps for migrating an existing BlogCFC blog to a JamStack, with a focus on using Eleventy.
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.
Project mention: Ajout de l'auto-complétion sur les Web Components avec Stencil | dev.to | 2024-03-14
In my experience, [Pelican](https://getpelican.com/) does a good job of allowing you to edit themes on all pages at once with its static page generator.
There are a lot of built in features designed more for blog-like websites, but I’ve found it pretty easy to make my personal website with it.
co-author here
we put in a lot of effort into our docs and we'd greatly appreciate any criticism or feedback! Langfuse is powerful but the docs should help beginners to quickly get started and then incrementally use more features.
docs are OSS, repo: https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs
built using: https://github.com/shuding/nextra
Thanks for reading!
The web tech stack is actually one of my biggest regrets. It's a static site generator called Gridsome[0] that the maintainers abandoned about three months after I used it to launch the TinyPilot website.
At the time I made the TinyPilot site, I was very excited about Vue, so a Vue-based SSG seemed great. Since then, I've come to find SPAs and most frontend frameworks to be way too much complexity, so I've moved away from Vue, but the TinyPilot website is still stuck on Vue 2.x and bootstrap-vue (which is tied to Vue 2 and Bootstrap 4).
So, it keeps creaking along, but building the 100ish pages on the site takes about five minutes, whereas I think something like Hugo could probably do it in a few seconds. Plus, we get random runtime errors[1] that are pretty hard to debug.
[0] https://gridsome.org/
[1] https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/5800
Project mention: Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-03
Most of the Static Site Generators default to generating blog from markdown, which is not feasible for company websites etc. For such projects I like Middleman (https://middlemanapp.com) which provides layouts/partials and things like haml templates.
Those have complicated stacks that likely won't serve the person that can't grasp a CLI SSG.
https://getpublii.com has a simple GUI and is just a directory on your computer (inside the Dropbox directory for crude backup?).
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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Index
What are some of the best open-source Static Site Generator projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Next.js | 120,313 |
| 2 | Hugo | 72,452 |
| 3 | Gatsby | 55,000 |
| 4 | nuxt | 51,906 |
| 5 | Jekyll | 48,265 |
| 6 | astro | 42,342 |
| 7 | Hexo | 38,433 |
| 8 | slate | 35,827 |
| 9 | VuePress | 22,325 |
| 10 | MkDocs | 18,257 |
| 11 | mkdocs-material | 18,198 |
| 12 | decap-cms | 17,487 |
| 13 | eleventy 🕚⚡️ | 16,213 |
| 14 | gutenberg | 12,645 |
| 15 | stencil | 12,292 |
| 16 | Pelican | 12,239 |
| 17 | nextra | 10,374 |
| 18 | react-static | 10,283 |
| 19 | Gridsome | 8,525 |
| 20 | Metalsmith | 7,822 |
| 21 | hugo-blox-builder | 7,787 |
| 22 | Middleman | 7,019 |
| 23 | Publii | 5,967 |
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