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RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Post by jaredcwhite »

Communitivity wrote: post #2

I loved Jekyll, and still do. This is a sad state, and I hope both that it improves and Jekyll survives. I switched to Zola for most of my stuff a while back, and while there are still gaps, it does everything I need and is production ready. https://www.getzola.org/

Oh interesting, that's a Rust-based SSG. Definitely something nice about a single binary and not needing a full language runtime installed.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Post by sleibrock »

jaredcwhite wrote: post #3
Communitivity wrote: post #2

I loved Jekyll, and still do. This is a sad state, and I hope both that it improves and Jekyll survives. I switched to Zola for most of my stuff a while back, and while there are still gaps, it does everything I need and is production ready. https://www.getzola.org/

Oh interesting, that's a Rust-based SSG. Definitely something nice about a single binary and not needing a full language runtime installed.

Absolutely. I started using Zola after writing my own solution, Zola seemed like the next best step up. It has a lot of good, but it also requires a lot of setup to get going. If you don't care about making your own theme, it's easy to get going and start up a new site, but past that, it's very fast to compile files and comes with image transforms for additional resizing needs.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Post by eatonphil »

Personally I don't find static site generators worth the effort to learn or keep up-to-date as versions inevitably come. I end up just writing my own for each site in 1-200 lines of Python. It's normally just a markdown library and a template engine wrapped with a file system walker.

Here's an example: https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master.... It's longer than usual since it embeds parts of the home page html inside it.

These scripts last for years and only change slightly over time. Very low maintenance.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Post by cproctor »

Exuma wrote: post #4

What do people use besides Jekyll?

I've been using Hugo as well. I used Pelican (Python port of Jekyll) for a long time, but Hugo is so much more performant and has a larger ecosystem at this point.

The main downside is that the Hugo documentation is sometimes terse and snarky.

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