Static Site Generators

Comments primarily recommend and discuss static site generators such as Hugo, Jekyll, and others for building fast, simple blogs and websites using Markdown and themes.

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JonathanBuchh • Dec 24, 2021 • View on HN

Static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo are perfect for this :)

zhenjl • Jan 12, 2015 • View on HN

Try a static blog generator like hugo or octopress...

type0 • Apr 20, 2022 • View on HN

Try Hugo if you are into static site generators https://gohugo.io/

matwood • May 26, 2020 • View on HN

Glad someone already said this. And if you want something a bit more fancy, use a static site generator like Jekyll or Hugo.

lobocinza • Nov 15, 2021 • View on HN

Static site generators. I recommend Hugo.

Axien • Jun 30, 2021 • View on HN

Can you recommend a good static site generator?

hnzix • Sep 18, 2018 • View on HN

Did you evaluate Jekyll or Hugo for your use case?

quickthrower2 • May 14, 2022 • View on HN

as well as sister comment, there is hugo, jekyll, etc.

sgallant • Jul 3, 2016 • View on HN

You should try Hugo. It's lightning fast.

kolanos • Apr 11, 2016 • View on HN

There's a popular static site generator called Pelican.https://github.com/getpelican/pelican