Poll: What's your favorite static site generator? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by TeMPOraL » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 7:45 PM UTC

redline6561 wrote: post #119

TeMPOraL wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's a kludge, but here you go: https://gist.github.com/4190622

The original GitHub repo is private right now, because I'm not yet ready to reveal the site I'm building :). I plan to launch in two-three weeks; I'm working on content and styling right now.

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

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Post by wheely » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

omg, so many intelligent people reinventing the wheeeeeeeeel... makes me sad.

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

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Post by PStamatiou » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 10:42 PM UTC

I'm a fan of Jekyll wrapped in rack so I can host it on Heroku (and do all the misc redirects I needed to convert it from my old WordPress setup and keep links the same, without any htaccess).

For those interested I wrote a guide on WordPress to Jekyll migration: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll

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

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Post by ralsina » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #10

I'm using octopress at the moment but it's terribly slow for anything over the trival level. Just a few hundred pages and it's minutes between generations.

Avoiding that problem was one of the main goals of Nikola's development, which is why it has a whole dependency build thing (based on doit, similar to a Makefile).

I have a 1200+ post blog so it was that or death by boredom :-)