Build Static Websites

Re:Build Static Websites by CJefferson on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:35AM (#8967135)

Static website generators seem to come and go -- would anyone like to comment on one they like that seems to be lasting the test of time? The obvious one seems to be jekyll (possibly with octopress on top of it), but I'm interested in any others.

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Re:Build Static Websites by ryanSrich on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:02PM (#8967784)

Middleman has been the most usable for me. In the past I've tried Jekyll, Hexo, Huge and DocPad.

Middleman is just simple enough that you can quickly build out an entire website/blog with great functionality, but extensible enough that you can write some custom Ruby to do that one specific thing you want.

I also really like how middleman can essentially use any markdown renderer or template engine. As someone that loves erb, Sass and Rake, Middleman just makes the most sense.

A few sites I've built with middleman

- http://ryanSrich.com/blog

- https://resources.catalyze.io

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Re:Build Static Websites by ruemic on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:06PM (#8967819)

http://www.staticgen.com is a great tool to help you find one to fit your needs. It does a daily poll of github stats on the most popular static site generators (72 on last count!) and lets you sort by programming language and popularity.

That being said, I'm been using gulp to hack together a system when the site isn't something conventional like a blog, marketing page or docs that many of these generators excel at.

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Re:Build Static Websites by slimsag on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:39AM (#8967160)

I don't know about "lasting the test of time", but I recently used Hugo (Jekyll clone written in Go) and found it impressive.

http://gohugo.io/

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Re:Build Static Websites by ethread on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:07PM (#8970415)

I've been using Hugo for a couple of months and I've been impressed with its speed and ease of use. Here's a short post with my initial impressions: http://www.threadhunter.com/2014/12/hugo-static-website-engi...

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Re:Build Static Websites by mark212 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:12PM (#8967421)

I second that. The templating is a bit tough to get my head around, not being proficient in Go, but super-fast times to generate the static content.

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Re:Build Static Websites by 27182818284 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:39AM (#8967163)

Pelican I've had great luck with so far, but I can't testify honestly to whether it will last. Since it is Python and makefiles, I have found it very easy to modify myself just with my background knowledge.

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Re:Build Static Websites by dana_janssen on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:00PM (#8967766)

Middleman still receives consistent updates. It's been a rock solid platform for us to build static websites and the occasional prototype out of for the last few years. Deploys easily to GitHub pages, too.

https://middlemanapp.com https://github.com/middleman/middleman

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Re:Build Static Websites by drhayes9 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:46AM (#8967219)

I'll put in a vote for Hexo: http://hexo.io/

Node.js-based, lots of plugins available via npm, sane themeing syntax. I have a script that generates my site and then pushes it to S3.

My site, such as it is, is available here: https://github.com/drhayes/drhayes.io

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Re:Build Static Websites by sfeng on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:43AM (#8967191)

It's a bit more technical, but most of my projects use Gulp with the necessary plugins to handle the specific requirements of the project.

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