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!
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/ + https://pradyunsg.me/furo/ theme + https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/ markdown parser + https://sphinx-design.readthedocs.io/ extensions.
Just drop all your markdown files in a directory and run
sphinx-build. Highly customizable but also works out of the boxI 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!
In case you’re familiar with Obsidian, there’s Quartz: quartz.jzhao.xyz/ Runs in docker too, practically zero config to start
Thanks 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!
Quarto is probably the most unique one I’ve seen so far. Thanks for the input.
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!
Relevant comment chain: https://programming.dev/comment/12187727
Neat, thanks!
Quartz or mkdocs
Thanks for the recommendations!
Codeberg Pages if you don’t mind a give-or-take weekly 30 min downtime. GitHub Pages if you do. GitLab Pages if you have a creditcard which they require to verify your identity.
I recently switched to Codeberg Pages and it’s the first time I’m hearing about a weekly downtime. Is there somewhere this is documented or I can read more about it?
“Honestly, I am completely unsure how to proceed with the pages server.
It might be the best idea to deprecate it.”
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Zola. Similar to Hugo, but newer and written in Rust.
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.
Thanks!
It’s a GUI app that runs on your local system and pushes sites to a server.
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.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Another deer!? 😱
Lol yes another gd deer, just got the car back yesterday.
Seconded. OP, if you can write Markdown, Hugo will turn it into a website.
Thank you for the recommendation!
And best of luck with the repair. That’s a crazy bill estimate.
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.
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.
Try Publii. It does everything for you. You can even set up the FTP upload.
Good to know. Thank you for the recommendation!
