Hugo

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The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.

List of Static Site Generator

• Static Site Generator
• Documentation generator
• Octopress
• Hugo (Golang)
• Pelican
• GatsbyJS (JS+React)
• Jekyll (Ruby)
• Hexo (JavaScript)
• JAMstack
• VuePress
• meli - open-source hosting platform for static sites
• Netlify
• GitHub Pages
• ROAPI - generates APIs for static datasets without a single line of code
• zola - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.
• Evidence - web framework for data analysts (open source that turns documents written in SQL and Markdown into reports in the form of a static site)
• Eleventy - Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.
• Nuxt (JavaScript+Vue)
• Zola (Rust)
• Elder (JavaScript+Svelte)
• Lusift - JS library for creating product tours
• Astro - ship minimal JavaScript
• fusion.ssg - minimal framework for static websites
• 11ty
• SkunkHTML - automatically generates websites on GitHub Pages from Markdown
• Pelican
• Sphinx (documentation generator)
• Redoc
• mkdocs
• Nikola
• Docusaurus
• Zensical
• Gitmal - static page generator for Git repositories

Favorite site

• HUGO web site
• Building a 'Smashing' website with Hugo and Netlify ¹
• Easy Setup (Hugo + Netlify + Forestry)

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