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