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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?

#41
Commence shameless plug for my project, "fragments":

http://glyphobet.github.com/fragments/

It could be used as a static site generator, among other things. But it uses version-control style diffs and merges, instead of any structure or language, which has the advantage that there's no generation step, and you can just edit the files as pure HTML.

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

#42

Now,i'm a web developer and i'm new to this. why don't anyone write a html page from scratch? what is the real use of site generator? i have worked on wordpress, drupal, and others. Anyone please be helpful to me.

Site generators of this type form a happy medium between the inefficiency of writing HTML from scratch (after all, most boils down to templates filled with content) and the inefficiency of regenerating static content upon every request (as WP and Drupal are prone to do).

If there's no dynamic stuff on your site, why pull everything from a database? And if you save time by using templates, why roll your own HTML?

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

#43
post #35

Although I'm not sure if it counts as a static site generator, about 3 months ago there was a Show HN for a blog generator that was entirely client-side that had a pane on the left where Instagram, Github, etc. content was displayed and the actual blog posts were from your Tumblr account. Does anyone remember the name of that project? I've been looking everywhere for it...

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

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post #35

Although I'm not sure if it counts as a static site generator, about 3 months ago there was a Show HN for a blog generator that was entirely client-side that had a pane on the left where Instagram, Github, etc. content was displayed and the actual blog posts were from your Tumblr account. Does anyone remember the name of that project? I've been looking everywhere for it...

Nevermind, found it: https://github.com/rigoneri/syte

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

#46

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).

Started to learning Haskell few weeks ago. Love to see it. BTW, nice site theme.
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