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Ask HN: What static site generator would you use?
I have this Wordpress site - don't intend to start (yet another) flame war, but I'd really like to make a change. I've used Jekyll before, and lately, checked out Octopress, as well as Python-based static site tools like Hyde and Pelican.
What would you recommend?
- anonfunction 13y agoI finally just got into Jekyll to build a quick lesson based website and I'm really impressed. So far my only gripe is that gh-pages doesn't allow plugins, but it's easy to generate the site locally and only push _site so not even a big deal.
- rudimk 13y agoYeah, gh-pages has that problem. On a side note, I'd probably end up deploying Jekyll(or whatever I end up using) onto Amazon. On another note - that's unrelated - apart from Github, there's no other platform that supports hosting static site generators, is there?
- anonfunction 13y agoI can totally understand why github doesn't want people running ruby on their servers. Not that I know of.
- rudimk 13y agoYeah. The sheer types of code they could run.. So..would such a service be useful? Sign up, choose what static generator you'd like to use(Jekyll, Hyde, Pelican, Octopress), and you have a functional dev console embedded in a web page, with a pretty editor, to edit your site?
- swanson 13y agohttp://www.paperplane.io/ http://www.paperplane.io/ supports static hosting from Dropbox and Github.
- stevekemp 13y agoThere's a brief review of available options here: https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators In conclusion most of them rock, but so many of them have problems with symlinks. I use templer: https://github.com/skx/templer Largely it will come down to whether you're building "a site", or "a blog". The two are slightly different.
- alexgaribay 13y agoI switched from WP to Octopress. It's pretty easy to use and manage.