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Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#22Hugo is, IMHO, one of the best, most versatile options out there for an SSG. I've been using it since v0.15 (now at 0.37).
I use it for a simple, mostly text, blog (https://kar.ai).
I also use it for an image-heavy company site (https://www.stonelandinc.com).
I also use it for 20+ other sites for clients.
It's undergoing heavy development, so that may be a pro or con, depending.
e.g. Recently they added image processing [0]. This eliminates a python script I was using for the same purpose. It's much faster as well, which matters when regenerating ~1k images.
Down side, documentation & community is still catching up on the newer features.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#23What is all the recent trend for static site generators about ? What happened non-static sites ?
Security is a lot easier to reason about on a static site. Especially if you're leaving the server security up to, say Amazon and hosting off of S3 or a CDN.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#24This might be an unpopular opinion, but really wouldn’t sweat all the details just yet. I’d just start with something simple, free and widely used just so you get into the rhythm of blogging. An existing service probably, Wordpress would even suffice - I use Posthaven but it’s $5/month. You can focus on getting the perfect backend later, but I’d focus on writing the posts themselves and getting into the rhythm of writing to a schedule. Many well-intentioned blogs fall into disuse long before they outgrow their tech stack.
After you’ve put a dozen or so posts together you’ll have a better feel for what your needs are and you can then migrate your posts to the new platform of your choice - you can even write a blog post about it :-)
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#25What is all the recent trend for static site generators about ? What happened non-static sites ?
People realized that many pages don't need to be dynamic (especially since native comments on blogs are pretty much dead), and hosting a static site is easier/cheaper than taking care of a dynamic one. Why keep up with patching your CMS or pay someone to do that if it's not necessary?
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#26I don’t know the right answer for you (probably depends on the language you know best or want to learn) but the “standard” is Jekyll in terms of maturity and acceptance.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#27I love Jekyll and GitHub pages for free hosting. Here’s a few clean templates I like:
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#28This is likely to be an unpopular answer, but the best choice is probably WordPress. I just used it to generate a network of about 40 static sites because (1) it has literally thousands of beautiful, professionally-developed themes for free; (2) same goes for plugins; (3) it's easy to hack if need be; and (4) it probably has one of the easiest-to-use and most-complete content editors, capable of creating both pages a…
its not static tho, which invalidates it from this list.
The fact that you mention it has a content-editor indicates you're not using it in a static fashion.
(Correction, I hadn't realised you could use it in a static way... I last touched WordPress back in the dark ages!)
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#29What is all the recent trend for static site generators about ? What happened non-static sites ?
Security is a lot easier to reason about on a static site. Especially if you're leaving the server security up to, say Amazon and hosting off of S3 or a CDN.
Was security a huge problem in Wordpress ? I work in the tech industry too, but never came across security as an issue. Or is it about the plugins bringing in the unreliability ?
Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?
#30This is likely to be an unpopular answer, but the best choice is probably WordPress. I just used it to generate a network of about 40 static sites because (1) it has literally thousands of beautiful, professionally-developed themes for free; (2) same goes for plugins; (3) it's easy to hack if need be; and (4) it probably has one of the easiest-to-use and most-complete content editors, capable of creating both pages a…
its not static tho, which invalidates it from this list. The fact that you mention it has a content-editor indicates you're not using it in a static fashion. (Correction, I hadn't realised you could use it in a static way... I last touched WordPress back in the dark ages!)
The idea is to use WordPress as the generator: Not the generated site.