Awesome Static Web Site Generators

A static web site generator is an application that takes plain text files and compiles them to HTML files.

Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework. - #JavaScript #Node.js
Hyde - #Python
Jekyll - Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator perfect for personal, project, or organization sites. - #Ruby
Octopress - Similar to Jekyll but where everything you need is already setup. - #Ruby #Jekyll
Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. - #Python
Spress - #PHP
Static - Supports org-mode and markdown. - #Clojure

DocPad - #JavaScript #CoffeeScript #Node.js
Flask-Frozen - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files. - #Python #Flask
Hakyll - Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration. - #Haskell
Hugo - It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. - #Go
LambdaPad - #Erlang
Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator. - #JavaScript #Node.js
MiddleMan - Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. - #Ruby
nanoc - Felxiable support for small personal to large corporate web sites. - #Ruby
Sculpin - #PHP
Sitegen - #Lua #MoonScript
Tags - #Python
Wintersmith - #JavaScript #Node.js
yst - Powered by YAML. - #Haskell

Helpful Tools and Services

Harpoon - S3 based deploy with rollback and staging/production support. - #Ruby

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