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Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by nnq »

what's the simplest Jinja2 generator out there?

...the use case is for creating and tweaking basic html themes. I currently helped a designer/front-end-guy set-up Hyde but it was horrible and he only needed 20% of what hyde does to get his job done... finally found a forked version with a patched bug that worked on Windows (original pypi and git versions had a weird bug), figured out that the only way to put media files was in the deploy folder because otherwise Hyde still tries to do stuff to them and fails miserably, and for SASS I just taught him to do `sass --watch sass:css` as I was afraid to think what horrors lay in the land of Hyde/SASS integration... and after all this it still does weird shit (on the other hand, my own experience with Hyde on Linux was much smoother... maybe it's just that the devs only test it on *NIX)

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by nnq »

dochtman wrote: post #4

I like Pelican (for blogs). Python, reST + Jinja. Looks like your list is basically Ruby, Node and PHP, excluding all the Python and other language options.

How does it compare to Wok? http://wok.mythmon.com/ (as said before, I'm looking for the simplest Jinja2 generator)

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by cbau »

nnq wrote: post #111

what's the simplest Jinja2 generator out there? ...the use case is for creating and tweaking basic html themes. I currently helped a designer/front-end-guy set-up Hyde but it was horrible and he only needed 20% of what hyde does to get his job done... finally found a forked version with a patched bug that worked on Windows (original pypi and git versions had a weird bug), figured out that the only way to put media fi…

I wrote my own tool here because I too had little interest in complexity of some of the larger generators: https://github.com/Ceasar/staticjinja. It's just 129 lines of code (https://github.com/Ceasar/staticjinja/blob/master/staticjinj...) and so far I've used it to build three sites with the ease I was hoping for. Might be what you're looking for, and at least, you should be able to edit it to fit your needs.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

mahmud wrote: post #12

Coleslaw, ye olde Common Lisp static site generator (with optional dynamic backends, if that's how you roll) http://www.cliki.net/coleslaw

Holy frak! So why did I just wrote a homebrew static site generator in CL two weeks ago? :D.

Anyway, it was a) a great experience, and b) gave me some insights into why building systems (stuff like rebar, rake, etc.) look the way they do.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by cbau »

Yet another plug:

staticjinja is an extremely minimal static page generator. It's less that 130 lines of code, and really is hardly more than a useful wrapper on top of jinja. Perfect though for writing Github Pages sites if you're not a fan of Ruby.

https://github.com/Ceasar/staticjinja

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by dkuntz2 »

ajays wrote: post #82
SnowLprd wrote: post #66

Pelican http://getpelican.com/&#62 ; is a Python-based static site generator with a very active community behind it. It has a good mix of features without being overly complicated. Check it out! (Disclaimer: I'm a Pelican project committer.)

I just moved to Pelican, and am liking it so far, except for one thing: the lack of mobile support. The theme I'm using, tuxlite, looks great in a browser; but on smartphones, it's squint city. I'd love it if Pelican automagically generated a mobile-friendly version of the site, which could then be used by some Rewrite rules based on the browser.

You can extend pelican to make a mobile site, or you could just put together a responsive theme for it.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by redline6561 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #116
mahmud wrote: post #12

Coleslaw, ye olde Common Lisp static site generator (with optional dynamic backends, if that's how you roll) http://www.cliki.net/coleslaw

Holy frak! So why did I just wrote a homebrew static site generator in CL two weeks ago? :D. Anyway, it was a) a great experience, and b) gave me some insights into why building systems (stuff like rebar, rake, etc.) look the way they do.

Neat. :) Is yours online anywhere?
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