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Re:Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder? by busterarm on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:00AM (#21619416)
I converted an extremely large marketing/news site of 5000+ articles (and growing) to Jekyll from Wordpress. Lots of custom-built plugins. Total build & deploy time start to finish is around 20 minutes, but about half of that is webpack doing its thing. I think the team responsible after I left has been able to speed things up to about 5 minutes, but can't confirm.

I've built a ton using both Jekyll and Hugo, and while that later is speedy, its templating is extremely inflexible. The more complicated your content and the things you try to do with it, the more grim things look for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder? by forgot-my-pw on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:11PM (#21631605)
Jekyll has nicer templating, but when you work on large website, Hugo is just much faster.

Bootstrap team is moving their docs to Hugo: https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2019/02/11/bootstrap-4-3-0/#br...

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Re:Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder? by busterarm on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:43AM (#21639929)
I thought my post made it clear that I was both aware of that and built one of the largest Jekyll sites on the internet.

I'd link the damn thing but I don't want to dox myself.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder? by forgot-my-pw on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:50PM (#21651984)
I was agreeing with you.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder? by busterarm on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:29PM (#21654584)
Fair enough. Mea culpa.

I do want to stress though that in that case, Hugo's speed wasn't a positive enough tradeoff vs worse templating to switch.

We used both on a case by case basis there. A few dozen online properties. Hugo got used on the simplest stuff, often 4-5 page lead generation sites which is about 30% of what that company did. Speed of builds/deployment is basically the same there, but with Hugo the tooling/pipeline was much simpler.

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