I have a weird approach to this problem that someone might like. I use Brunch, which is a frontend assembler (like Yeoman but with more flexibility). I then use

I have a weird approach to this problem that someone might like. I use Brunch, which is a frontend assembler (like Yeoman but with more flexibility). I then use a Jinja2 watcher utility over the output directory. So one watcher does Stylus>CSS, Coffee>JS, minifying, concat etc., and the other one is for the template stuff. I wrote a simple utility for the templating part, which can output site translations too if you want. https://github.com/jokull/jinjet https://github.com/jokull/jinjet Warning: Not good for blogging or anything you would like to update often. I’ve also tried Flask-Freezer for static sites. All the benefits of regular frameworks. Cactus has some nice things going for it, but some decisions are weird. May I suggest using Jinja2 for templating, Django is complete overkill and simply an inferior template engine. Oh and make it at least somewhat PEP8 compatible.