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Well, this thread got nuked didn't it? From first page to page 5 in under a few hours...
I 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.
This 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…
I also recommend Wordpress with HardyPress. You can use Wordpress to create content more elegantly than with static plain files, and you can use HardyPress to make the result a fully static site. I've been running my own blogs / portfolio in the last decade on static sites, from now now I'm using this new combo. Why? With the advent of the headless CMS scene static site generators just lost their unique advantage to…
I use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterward you can chose where to host it. You can use Github Pages [2] for free or pay for a service like DigitalOcean (starting with 5€ a month which scales well) [3]. I wrote a technical cheatsheet [4] on how to setup your own website with these ingredients. - [0] ht…
Hugo 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 pro…
I do not think the blog is going to be too image heavy as I'd like to keep it simple for now but it's definitely a plus to have. Thank you! :)
Previous discussion about almost exactly the same topic from 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346187 (89 comments)
- Hugo - Travis CI - Cloudflare - GitHub Pages This is how I host my website completely for free with SSL. Whenever I commit it to GitHub it will build and deploy it for me.
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!
What counts as "good enough" is such a subjective thing. What works for you will be some function of your needs and technical proficiency. It seems as though you don't have any specific needs, so any of the popular SSGs will be good enough for you. Pick one written in a language you already know, or pick one in a language you would like to learn. Some of the first Ruby code I wrote was a Jekyll plugin that I crudely…
I'm not familiar with Ruby at all as I primarily work on Django. Go has always been on my todo list so I'm mostly leaning towards that for now.
Thank you for the link! I can have a good look at all the available options :D
The best choices currently I think are: -- Ghost (expensive but dead simple to apply themes) or -- Hugo + Netflify (for hosting and automatically publishing your site when you push to your repo) + Forestry.io (for a nice front end to edit your posts if you want to avoid the command line) I care about Markdown plus MathJax support (for math notation) and both these options support that.
Thank you for Forestry though! Didn't know about it. Will definitely come in handy when I can't get to my personal laptop.
Hugo 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 pro…
That unfortunately has happened to me with other static site generators (breaking changes between versions with no automatic way to resolve them or thorough documentation on the changes to make to the source).