Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll

Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by seagreen on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:12PM (#10549719)

Hakyll is fantastic -- works great as a blog, but is also very extensible. I used Nanoc before that and it was also excellent.

I don't think you want Pelican or Jekyll in this case. Their emphasis is definitely on blogging and you'll have to fight them some if you move away from that niche.

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by wuschel on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:33PM (#10550184)

Are there any examples of a non-blog use case with Hakyll e.g. a partly static, partly generated website?

How does Hugo compare to Hakyll?

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by mreid on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:57PM (#10550575)

I haven't used Hugo but my entire site is generated with Hakyll: http://mark.reid.name/ . I've found it works well for a mixture of blogging and more static content.

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by wuschel on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:31PM (#10550916)

Thanks for the example. Can you compare Hakyll to other static site generators?

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by seagreen on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:17PM (#10551083)

Hakyll will be very similar to something like Nanoc. The difference will be mainly in the language and ecosystem -- compared to normal languages Haskell is pretty weird.

That said, Haskell is also _incredibly awesome_ and especially well suited to static site generation. Plus Pandoc is possibly the best format conversion tool out there. But I would only use if if you either already know Haskell or are curious and will enjoy playing around and learning new things.

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