Must have Static Site Generators for Web

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...

Static site generators have been around for years, but not until Jekyll came out did developers ever pay attention to this kind of scripts.Featuring a very simple content assembly procedure, Jekyll revolutionized the way static sites were built and showed...

Initially developed to automatically generate and power the GitHub Pages service, Jekyll can also be deployed on standalone servers and help users run their very own website Jekyll works by reading a template, running it through a Textile/Markdown and...

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...

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...

MkDocs uses the same principles as any other static site generator around.It requires the developer to edit a configuration file (MKDocs uses YAML for this), create page templates (via Jinja2), and add his content in a special folder (as Markdown...

It reads config, template, layout and content file holders like Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc. and generates a static website out of them. nanoc generates simple HTML files which then can be directly send via a server to users.nanoc can be used to power-up...

Nib is a little bit complex compared to other static site compilers.It can differentiate between static pages and blog posts, making it ideal for usage in both cases, or running both features at the same time and on the same site.Nib works by reading a...

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...

NoShi is not quite a CMS, since there's no visual interface to let users manage their site's content, but using local desktop-based text editors, any website owner can customize the content of their site whenever they want.NoShi is not quite a full-on...