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It is really trivial to build your own for a simple blog site. I like this approach as the toolchain develops alongside the site!
Jinja2 templates, simple Python build script. That way you can write your content in whatever format you like! To deploy just use a bash script. On Github pages you can just git push of course.
Please let me know if you need help.
I use Hugo, GitLab, and Netlify for blogs and landing pages. I highly recommend this combination. Hugo is blazingly fast and very customizable. It's written in Go, so it compiles hundreds of blog posts in less than a second. My old Jekyll and Octopress blogs used to take a few minutes. Netlify is like Heroku for static sites. You can connect Netlify to GitLab (free private repos), and Netlify will build and deploy yo…
Then now. Personal opinion but I love Gatsby ( https://www.gatsbyjs.org ). For me, it is the best static site generator out there. Yes more than static site generator as it is a PWA by default. It is infinitely scalable. It prefetches content before its loaded (think about this as you get the data of Previous Blog Post & Next Blog Post when you are on the Current Blog Post). Its so fast that you will actually feel the speed. Also, with little efforts you can make it work offline too.
Hugo plus forestry.io for anything that needs to be edited by non developers. Publii for a quick and simple blog only.
Happy to hear that! We (forestry.io) would love any feedback you might have.
* Cost almost nothing even if massive traffic (I wish)
* Infinate scaling
* No markdown, just html
* Post from browser, no publishing utils
* No web server
* No database
* Important plugins - comments, social media, email list
* Templates (eventually)
Built with jquery, S3, Cloudfront
Finished but not tested, demo at https://jamackinnon.com