Re:Static site generators focus on the wrong thing
by h4ckth3pl4n3t on Friday May 30, 2014 @06:29PM
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I agree with many of the points made in this article however I believe the conclusion is flawed. Many SSGs focus on the wrong thing, but not all of them. Fed up with Jekyll (which I used after being fed up with Wordpress) I wanted something with even less friction.
I came across Hugo (http://hugo.spf13.com) and have been super happy ever since. Here's some of the reasons why:
1. Really easy to install. One binary, no dependencies or package managers
2. Really fast. Renders my entire site with hundreds of posts in less than half a second. Even changes to templates or themes (which affect every page in the site) render in milliseconds. Wordpress couldn't even render a single page that quickly.
3. Because it is so fast the live reload feature Hugo has works really well. Keep a browser window open and see a nearly instant preview every time I save a file.
4. Deploying is as simple as running a 3 line shell script I wrote in a couple minutes. Since I'm already in the terminal running the script is trivial. I can even run it from within Vim. Thanks to Rsync it takes around 3 seconds to deploy my content. Again, less time that it takes to hit preview and then save in Wordpress.
I came across Hugo (http://hugo.spf13.com) and have been super happy ever since. Here's some of the reasons why:
1. Really easy to install. One binary, no dependencies or package managers
2. Really fast. Renders my entire site with hundreds of posts in less than half a second. Even changes to templates or themes (which affect every page in the site) render in milliseconds. Wordpress couldn't even render a single page that quickly.
3. Because it is so fast the live reload feature Hugo has works really well. Keep a browser window open and see a nearly instant preview every time I save a file.
4. Deploying is as simple as running a 3 line shell script I wrote in a couple minutes. Since I'm already in the terminal running the script is trivial. I can even run it from within Vim. Thanks to Rsync it takes around 3 seconds to deploy my content. Again, less time that it takes to hit preview and then save in Wordpress.
And all of these are the default.