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Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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a-saleh wrote: post #58

I am using nikola: https://getnikola.com/ The main reason is, that I really like jupyter notebooks and my blog began as experiments in Jupyter that I wanted to somehow preserve, i.e. http://notes.asaleh.net/posts/monoid-pattern-in-python/ Second reason is, that I like to experiment with format of my posts quite often (several were made in org-mode, i.e: http://notes.asaleh.net/posts/experimenting-with-purescripts...…

That's interesting! A good alternative to Pelican and Lektor. I'll consider this since I'm already comfortable with Jinja. Thank you very much :)

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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zapperdapper wrote: post #74

Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template. GitHub pages is also a great way to get started quickly - Markdown is easy to learn and there are several cheat sheets out there. What I did in the end is created my own very simple site generator (calling it that is probably being over generous) - it lacks many features of a full-blown generator like Hugo…

Hugo seems okay to me. Not that complicated so far. Yeah, it's a bit opinionated which kinda irks me sometimes coming from something like Jinja templating.

Do you have your SSG up somewhere on GitHub? I'd like to give it a look. Seems to be a cool idea. Thank you for telling me about neocities. Wasn't aware of that!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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geekodour wrote: post #17

I built a JavaScript static site generator last year, works good for me. It uses github issues but makes it static. https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog

Checking it out now! Seems to do quite a lot, actually. Great job!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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apm84 wrote: post #14

Pelican (python) and Hugo were the ones I looked at before I decided to write my own toy SSG (python) for the heck of it. If you’re looking for something simple that you can build on, with support for Markdown, Jinja2 and static pages, take a look at https://github.com/amithmathew/pyjello If somebody wants to contribute, I’m happy to accept pull requests.

Any particular reasons why you chose to do this? I'm just curious on what the shortcomings of both these SSGs are that was off-putting to you.

I'll check it out. Seems to be mature enough to give it a try. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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dmytrish wrote: post #45

In my experience, static site generators are not a complete solution. Unless you are satisfied with the default look and feel of generated pages (or a theme available), even Jekyll needs some tinkering, debugging and diving into the code. So, in case you need customizaton: just stick with any static site generator written in a familiar language and don't be afraid to fiddle with generation process.

Yeah, I'll have to do that since I'm rarely happy with a default theme. Will need to modify it to suit my taste. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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StavrosK wrote: post #67

I use (and like) Lektor. It's very flexible and easy to get started with. Hugo was another contender, but I found it very hard to understand and work with, and it took some hacks to do a very simple thing I wanted, so I abandoned it quickly.

I'll be giving both Lektor and Pelican a shot since they both use Python and Jinja and I'm familiar with them coming from Django. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by artemis73 »

romanovcode wrote: post #87
artemis73 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I've always wanted to give CI a shot. This could be a good start to explore it. What role does cloudflare play here? Just curious as I don't know what it's capable of doing. I might end up adopting the same system as well since everyone here has been raving about Hugo. Thank you for the suggestions!

Cloudflare provides free SSL because the github pages are directing to a custom domain therefore there github cannot provide with SSL.

Ah! Right. That's on the todo list as well. Thank you very much!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by artemis73 »

RobGav wrote: post #59

Just use Getpublii https://getpublii.com Its really different than other generators - it's a static CMS with GUI and themes. Comes with WP migrator, GitHub pages, Netlify, S3, Google cloud or sftp.

Looks great but sadly, they don't have Linux support (yet). Will check them once they start supporting Linux. Thank you :)

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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noelwelsh wrote: post #37

I'm using Hakyll, simply because I want a bit more exposure to Haskell. I've used Jekyll and Hugo in the past. Jekyll has lots of support but is slow for large sites. Hugo was alright. Only used it for a small project.

Interesting! Will check it out. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by artemis73 »

0xmohit wrote: post #43
noelwelsh wrote: post #37

I'm using Hakyll, simply because I want a bit more exposure to Haskell. I've used Jekyll and Hugo in the past. Jekyll has lots of support but is slow for large sites. Hugo was alright. Only used it for a small project.

Here is a tutorial on creating a static site with Hakyll and Github: https://begriffs.com/posts/2014-08-12-create-static-site-wit... EDIT: Tutorials about Hakyll: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/tutorials.html

Thank you! :)
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