Awesome Static Web Site Generators

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

• Awesome Static Web Site Generators
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  • Documentation
  • Frameworks
  • Photography
  • Single Page
  • Wikis
• Helpful Tools and Services
  • Deploy
  • Web Hosts
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• Related Awesome
• Static Web Site Generators in Other Awesome Lists

Blogs

• ABlog - A Sphinx extension that converts any documentation or personal website project into a full-fledged blog. - #Python
• 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
• Journey - #Go
• Nikola - #Python
• 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
• Tinkere - #Python

CMS

• Lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine. - #Python
• Tipe - An easy to use API-first CMS engine to generate static sites. - #JavaScript

Documentation

• DocPad - #JavaScript #CoffeeScript #Node.js
• Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites. - #JavaScript #React
• Slate - #Ruby
• Sphinx - #Python

Frameworks

• Assemble - #JavaScript #Node.js
• Cactus - #MacOSX
• Cactus - #Python
• coil - #elixir
• Complexity - for those who like to work in HTML - #Python
• Cuttlebelle - The react static site generator that separates editing and code concerns = #JavaScript #Node.js #React.js
• Flask-Frozen - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files. - #Python #Flask
• Gaiden - A tool that makes it easy to create documentation with Markdown. - #Groovy
• Gatsby - #JavaScript #Node.js #React.js
• Grain - #Groovy
• Harp - #JavaScript #Node.js
• 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
• JBake #Java
• LambdaPad - #Erlang
• m4-bakery - #make #m4
• 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
• obelisk - #elixir
• Pagegen - #Python
• Phenomic - Modern static website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem. - #Javascript #Node.js #React.js
• Phrozn - #PHP
• Roots - #Node.js
• Sculpin - #PHP
• Sitegen - #Lua #MoonScript
• Tags - #Python
• Urubu - #Python
• webgen - #Ruby
• Wintersmith - #JavaScript #Node.js
• yst - Powered by YAML. - #Haskell
• React Static - A progressive static-site framework for React. - '#React.js'

Photography

• Expose - for photoessays - #Bash
• Sigal - #Python

Single Page

• Flatdoc - a small JavaScript file that fetches Markdown files and renders them as full pages. - #JavaScript

Wikis

• Gollum - Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git. - #Ruby
• ikiwiki - #Haskell

Helpful Tools and Services

• Chartspree - Creats svg based charts for your static web sites.
• Formspree - Adds functional forms to your static web sites.
• git-annex - Configure git-annex for a public repository for a static web site.

Deploy

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

Web Hosts

• AWS S3
• Divshot
• Netlify

Other Lists of Static Web Site Geneartors

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