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Ask HN: What is the easiest to use static site generator?
I am trying to determine the easiest to use static site generator. I have found there are now several hundred static site generators and I understand most of these are forks of the main static site generators.
By easiest I mean the most user friendly to set-up and create a site, best documentation, and has an active group of users/community.
- tuananh 11y agoactive groups of user/community: jekyll probably. jekyll documentation is good too. it's quite easy seems to fit with your needs.
- stadeschuldt 11y agoIt really boils down to your language preference: For Ruby: Jekyll http://jekyllrb.com http://jekyllrb.com or Middleman https://middlemanapp.com https://middlemanapp.com (in case you want a site rather than a blog) For Python: Pelican http://blog.getpelican.com http://blog.getpelican.com
- jjude 11y agoCheckout Olai, (http://olai.in http://olai.in), a hosted static site generator. Nothing to setup. Connect Amazon S3 or Github page and you are done. Bonus: Use your desktop blog editors, like MarsEdit. Disclosure: Olai is my baby.
- thenomad 11y agoPricing's a bit confusing. Is that 10 new posts a month or are you only allowed 10 posts ever? :)
- lalwanivikas 11y agoJekyll. If you are just getting started, you can read this tutorial I wrote for SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/set-jekyll-blog-5-minutes-poole/ http://www.sitepoint.com/set-jekyll-blog-5-minutes-poole/
- hackercurious 11y ago>It really boils down to your language preference: I was looking for the easiest-setup, operation, posting on web, updating content etc. In this way I have only the preference of simple use.
- gadders 11y agoCityDesk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityDesk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityDesk (or it was 15 years ago)
- someguy1233 11y agoWhat purpose are you using them for? I tried Jekyll and found it just got in the way of me creating sites, so I found Middleman. Middleman is much easier than Jekyll if you want to build any kind-of normal non-blog website.
- hackercurious 11y agoI was trying to want to build a simple kind-of normal non-blog website also. Thanks for the tip on Middleman.
- bbcbasic 11y agoInspired by your question I had a quick Google. This one seems quite easy http://gohugo.io http://gohugo.io. You download the built binary, no dependencies, lots of themes available. Had it working in a few minutes. (The git clone step didn't work for me but I just went to github and downloaded the zip.)
- hackercurious 11y agoThanks for the tip on Hugo, it looks good will check it out. There are so many static s. gens. https://www.staticgen.com/ https://www.staticgen.com/