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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?

#24

Years ago we want to do this and I didn't know any tool for it. I develop the application internally and we used wget mirroring to statically deploy it. Initially I thought it would suck but turns out wget is way better than I thought. With the combination of ssh etc. We build a simple script that deploys takes mirror of the website and deploys it. After about 5-6 years, it's still in production with no issues. Inter…

That sounds pretty cool. Have you considered publishing it under an open-source license?

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

#25

Years ago we want to do this and I didn't know any tool for it. I develop the application internally and we used wget mirroring to statically deploy it. Initially I thought it would suck but turns out wget is way better than I thought. With the combination of ssh etc. We build a simple script that deploys takes mirror of the website and deploys it. After about 5-6 years, it's still in production with no issues. Inter…

exactly, i developed a solution based on pavuk (which has a bit more options then wget) - still in use as far as I know after almost 8 years!

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

#26
Hakyll, since it has Haskell type safety goodness and is very customizable (it's basically a Haskell EDSL for static site generation):

http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

The other nice thing about Hakyll is that it uses Pandoc, so it supports different input and output formats (such as HTML slide generation from Markdown).

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