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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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Post by dhruvkar »

slazaro wrote: post #90
dhruvkar wrote: post #22

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…

You have been using it for a long time, right? Have you found any issues in the case when you previously successfully generated a site using an older version, but then install a newer version in a different machine, and you try to generate the site with the "old" source? That unfortunately has happened to me with other static site generators (breaking changes between versions with no automatic way to resolve them or…

Yes, a couple issues along the way.

Honestly, they were minor enough that I don't remember the specifics, and it didn't take me long to fix.

Since they're not at v1.0 yet, this is to be expected somewhat.

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

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Post by artemis73 »

kaushalmodi wrote: post #73
artemis73 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everone seems to be raving about Hugo so I'll give it a chance. Let's see how it goes. I did give a quick glance at the templating syntax and it certainly was easy to grasp. I haven't used Lisp so I'm not sure of how similar they are. Org mode support seems to be interesting. I've always wanted to pick that up as well. Could you share some good resources you might be aware of? A quick Google search led me to some rea…

> I haven't used Lisp so I'm not sure of how similar they are. As I said, I can see the syntax to be easy to grasp for anyone knowing any coding language. But Lisp fans would be in for a treat. In very simple terms, a list function always had the function symbol or identifier as the first element of a list (everything is a list in Lisp), and any number of arguments have to follow after that. Example of an add functio…

That's pretty good. Can comprehend the syntax pretty easily. It also seems to be a tad bit similar to Jinja's syntax which I'm familiar with so this shouldn't be a problem at all.

Thank you for the detailed explanation though. I appreciate it!

I wasn't even aware that Emacs has a detailed reference built in for Org. Oh well! I should start using Emacs more I guess.

And once again, thank you for all the links. The information dump is great, actually. I've got enough material to put things in place and start working with Org mode.

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

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Post by artemis73 »

petepete wrote: post #8
Hates_ wrote: post #2

Hugo seems quite popular these days, especially if you like Go https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo

Even if you don't like Go, Hugo is super-easy to install and get up and running.

Yep, already have it running locally and exploring what it's capable of!

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

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Post by artemis73 »

Fletch137 wrote: post #44

IMO, just about any will do, but the simplest thing that'll get the job done is probably the best choice - less inertia. If all you need is a markdown-powered blog, then choose something that does only that. I use Gatsby because I'm familiar with React and it does what I need it to do. I provide a few small businesses with simple websites to advertise their services (opening times and the like) where wordpress would…

You're right about the minimalist approach. I just want something quick and easy. I shouldn't dread to use it else I will end up dropping it altogether.

I'll be picking up Go as I'm unfamiliar with React and Go seems to be easy to grasp. Thank you for suggesting Gatsby though, I'll give it a shot once I learn React, which should happen this year.

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

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Post by artemis73 »

wireblitz wrote: post #27

I love Jekyll and GitHub pages for free hosting. Here’s a few clean templates I like: https://bvallieres.com/resource/2015/07/29/jekyll.html

The templated do look slick! I'll see if I can find any counterparts for Hugo or rebuild any of them as I currently leaning towards that. 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 »

turbinerneiter wrote: post #47

* Makefile * Pandoc * git You push to a remote on your server, it runs the Makefile via post-receive hook and builds a single, static html file from your Markdown with Pandoc (inlineing everything, images even fonts if you want to) and copies it to the folder served by your nginx.

Interesting proposition. This could be a worthwhile weekend project. Will use Hugo for now as I don't intend to get my own VPS anytime soon but I'll definitely try this 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 »

smcl wrote: post #24

This 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 wri…

Posthaven is interesting! I'll have a look at it once I'm a bit more serious about blogging. Either this or something like Ghost.

You're right though. From what I can tell, most of these alternatives seem to be interoperable and I can jump around easily if need be. I'll start with hugo and see where that leads me. And I'll blog about that as well :) Great idea :D 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 »

fpadilha wrote: post #55

If you are still undecided to go static or not, I would recommend checking out Grav. We were almost going for a static generator for our blog (we were between Hugo and Jekyll) when I stumbled into Grav. It's not static but it is flat-file based, which as it turns out gave to us exactly what we needed, a serverless solution (all your posts are just markdown files and all your settings are yaml files) with powerful tem…

WOW! This piqued my interest. I've downloaded it and I'll be giving this a whirl for the next few days. Thank you so 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 »

manojlds wrote: post #11

I hope 2018 here means cool and new solution that's different from previous ones in many ways - GatsbyJS

Yep! I'd love to give Gatsby a shot but I have no knowledge about React. Will try it out once I learn a thing or two about it. Nevertheless, thank you very much for your suggestion :)
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