Hi,
I’m interested in setting up a small static-site-generator site. Looked at 11ty recently and feel pretty uncomfortable with the amount of javascript and “funny language” churn just to make some html happen.
Do you know of any alternative that’s simpler / easier / less complicated dependencies? Or do you have an approach to 11ty that you think I should try?
Thanks in advance for any input, it’s appreciated!
Zola. Similar to Hugo, but newer and written in Rust.
Thanks!
I used Zola for a while, but at the end of the day there wasnt enough themes available that fit what I was looking for. I ended up messing with the templating engine to get what I needed.
I suggest OP choose Hugo over Zola, in the hopes that they find a theme that suits them best and for the most part prevents them from having to touch templating to begin with.
My preference is Nikola.
Thank you for the recommendation!
I think mkdocs is easier than hugo but less flexible in terms of capability. However it serves all my needs (list of webpages accessible from a central frontpage)
Thanks!
Docusaurus. It’s all markdown.
Thanks for the rec! Looks awesome; Imma try it :)
Oof. Meta open source. Srsly sus. •͡˘㇁•͡˘
Will give that a look, thanks!
Have you checked out grav https://learn.getgrav.org/17/basics/what-is-grav
https://github.com/getgrav/grav
I use it just to make simple markdown sites for info like my gaming servers or if I feel like making a random blog post
Technically Grav is not a static site generator, it is just a flat file cms. It means there is no need to generate all the files of website and upload them to server each time you write a post. I have no idea why people like static sites for blogging.
Use rsync and only upload the files that have changed.
As the sibling comment says, not a static site generator. If you want to customize pretty much anything about the layout or theming you still need to use Twig, CSS and if you’re unlucky JS.
Thanks for the recommendation. I actually did look at grav a while back, but I can’t recall why I moved on. Will give it another pass.
It’s a GUI app that runs on your local system and pushes sites to a server.
Thank you for the recommendation!
I’m planning on porting my Wordpress site to this. I haven’t used it yet but based on what I’ve read it will be easier than Hugo.
Quartz or mkdocs
Thanks for the recommendations!
I want to second Pelican for Python. Really easy to set up and get going. No need to learn a complicated templating language (it’s jinja2, which is what everything uses).
Thanks for the recommendation!
That looks neat. Thanks!
I’m looking for something similar that I can host in blue host, but all there is, apparently, is WordPress (hell no), joomla and drupal, and these are certainly not static.
That’s like the OG crew of web content haha. I used to be pretty big on Wordpress, but then two of my sites got compromised (through a plugin probably?), and of course the recent kerfluffle going on.
Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?
It has RSS built-in, but since it is a static site generator, it does not support ActivityPub out of the box. But I do think I have seen implementations with some custom JavaScript.
No, hugo does not federate.
Another deer!? 😱
Lol yes another gd deer, just got the car back yesterday.
Thank you for the recommendation!
And best of luck with the repair. That’s a crazy bill estimate.
Seconded. OP, if you can write Markdown, Hugo will turn it into a website.
Relevant comment chain: https://programming.dev/comment/12187727
Neat, thanks!
This might be what you’re looking for: Zola
Single binary that lets you keep your markdown/config in git and just build it from the git clone folder you’re in at the time.
I know some people that have moved off of Hugo to this, and Alex from the Selfhosted podcast recently talked about it on their show.
Thank you for the recommendation! Zola looks promising.
Use Publii, it has a WYSIWYG editor, a block editor and a markdown editor. It creates the files on your PC and can upload it to your server. Just point your webserver to the uploaded folder.
Very beginner friendly ☝🏻
Thanks for the recommendation!
I used an LLM… Took me about an hour to set up a cicd pipeline in cloudflare pages which pulls code on change from my GitHub
The LLM guided me through that part too…
Then I used Cursor to make the thing. It actually performed really well. Just told it to make it look like medium.com since I like that clean look.
Entirely ai generated, blog post too.
