Static Site Generator
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Static site generators (SSGs) are engines that use text input files (such as Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc) to generate static web pages. Static sites generated by static site generators do not require a backend after site generation, making them first-class citizens on content delivery networks (CDNs). Some of the most popular static site generators are Jekyll, Hugo, and Next.js (JavaScript). SSGs are typically for rarely-changing, informative content, such as product pages, news websites, (software) documentation, manuals, and blogs.
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 building product tours
- Astro - Ship as little JavaScript as possible
- fusion.ssg - Minimal framework for static websites
- 11ty
- SkunkHTML - Automatically generates a website on GitHub Pages from Markdown
- Pelican
- Sphinx (documentation generator)
- Redoc
- mkdocs
- Nikola
- Docusaurus
- Zensical
- Gitmal - Static page generator for Git repositories
See also
- Disqus (comment service)
- formspree (mail service)
- Airtable
- Baserow - NoCode database tool with an Excel-like UI
- Jasontte - Open source for building native apps from JSON
- PageFind - Search library for static pages
Style reference sites
- Azure DevOps
- Dopefolio - Open-source portfolio template for developers