New Static Site Generators for Web

Spress lets developers create simple websites using a bloat-free application known in the industry as a "static site generator." Made famous by Jekyll and GitHub, static site generators are one of the most trending tools developers are developing today,...

Grav falls in the same category as other PHP scripts like Stacey, Kirby, Yellow, NoShi, or Pico, and scripts written in other programming languages like Jekyll, Hakyll, DocPad, Metalsmith, and Nikola. Grav works in a similar fashion, using a template...

Nikola works by taking the website's content from a series files and combining them into HTML pages based on a preset template file. The content files and the business logic are separated for easier administration, and for easier editing whenever...

While most static site compilers work on top of a core that includes all basic functionality, Metalsmith is different. It has a much much smaller core, and all the functionality is added via plugins. So if you want to have a breadcrumb navigation system...

DocPad's core is a template engine which has complete access to the site structure and document model. This means the developer can have the unlimited power of a CMS and the simplicity of a notepad. So basically DocPad allows developers to create...

While most static site compilers are available in PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Perl, none have been available in Google's Go programming language that has been taking the development World by storm. Hugo is such a tool, a complex system that takes...

SuSi needs two things to work. One is a Markdown file where the actual content is stored, and the second is a layout template which governs how the content is rendered on the page.If the two are provided, SuSi will fill the content inside the layout and...

Pelican is a good tool to generate your blogs with if you hate working with relative or NoSQL databases.Pelican will store all its content inside local text files, and use markup languages like Markdown, AsciiDoc, or reStructuredText to format the pages'...

Stout is not that different from any other static site generator, except instead of serving the compiled HTML website from the folder it's in, it uploads it to an Amazon S3 server instead.If your website targets anyone in general and not users in a...

Kirby allows editors to write content in static files and then print them out on a Web page using complex templates.Most of the time users will be writing content in static files and moving them to a specific folder on their server, but there's also an...