docpad - Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc

•    CoffeeScript

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Hi! I'm DocPad, I streamline the web development process and help close the gap between experts and beginners. I've been used in production by big and small companies for over a year and a half now to create plenty of amazing and powerful web sites and applications quicker than ever before. What makes me different is instead of being a box to cram yourself into and hold you back, I'm a freeway to what you want to accomplish, just getting out of your way and allowing you to create stuff quicker than ever before without limits. Leave the redundant stuff up to me, so you can focus on the awesome stuff.Discover my features below, or skip ahead to the installation instructions to get started with a fully functional pre-made website in a few minutes from reading this.

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gray-matter - Smarter yaml front matter parser, used by metalsmith, gatsby, netlify, assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, and many others

•    Javascript

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Parse front-matter from a string or file. Fast, reliable and easy to use. Parses YAML front matter by default, but also has support for YAML, JSON, TOML or Coffee Front-Matter, with options to set custom delimiters. Used by metalsmith, assemble, verb and many other projects. Please consider following this project's author, Jon Schlinkert, and consider starring the project to show your ❤️ and support.

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Hugo - A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in GoLang

•    Go

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A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website. Hugo is designed to work well for any kind of website including blogs, tumbles, and docs.

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Jekyll - Simple, Blog-aware, Static Site Generator

•    Ruby

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Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through Markdown (or Textile) and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable for serving with your favorite web server. Jekyll also happens to be the engine behind GitHub Pages.

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jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

•    Ruby

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Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator perfect for personal, project, or organization sites. Think of it like a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories. Jekyll does what you tell it to do — no more, no less. It doesn't try to outsmart users by making bold assumptions, nor does it burden them with needless complexity and configuration. Put simply, Jekyll gets out of your way and allows you to concentrate on what truly matters: your content.

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cuttlebelle - The react static site generator that separates editing and code concerns

•    HTML

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All static site generators I have used restrict you to use one layout per page. Todays webdesign needs have outgrown this and we often find ourself either adding code into our content pages (markdown files, liquid templates) or content into our code. That makes updating and maintaining a page hard, especially for a non-technical content author. I needed a generator that can separate content from code as cleanly as possible while still staying a static site generator and as dynamic as possible.

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panini - A super simple flat file generator.

•    Javascript

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A super simple flat file generator for use with Gulp. It compiles a series of HTML pages using a common layout. These pages can also include HTML partials, external Handlebars helpers, or external data as JSON or YAML. Panini isn't a full-fledged static site generator—rather, it solves the very specific problem of assembling flat files from common elements, using a templating language.

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generator-jekyllized - A Yeoman generator for Jekyll to rapidly build sites using Gulp

•    Javascript

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generator-jekyllized is a very opinionated Yeoman generator built with Jekyll and gulp. You will be able to quickly scaffold your site and start developing. As you are working on your site your assets will automatically be updated and injected into your browser as well as your posts. When you are done developing and want to publish it you are two commands away from having everything optimized and published. While developing locally everything you change will automatically be updated and injected into your browser. Changing your SCSS or JavaScript files will automatically updated them, create sourcemaps and inject them. Writing or editing posts and pages for your website will do the same. Simple and effective.

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gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.

•    Rust

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A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. Documentation is available on its site or in the docs/content folder of the repository.

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zola - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.

•    Rust

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A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. Documentation is available on its site or in the docs/content folder of the repository and the community can use its forum.

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generator-jekyllrb - Supercharge Jekyll development with Yeoman. Yo, Jekyllrb!

•    Javascript

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Generator-jekyllrb wraps the Jekyll static site generator in a Yeoman development workflow. Scaffold your site with Yo, manage front end packages with Bower, and automate development and build tasks with Grunt. Generator-jekyllrb is ideal for developing performant static sites and prototyping dynamic sites and apps (especially if the final version uses Yeoman too). It's also a great introduction to Yeoman if you're not familiar with JavaScript MV* frameworks.

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harp - Static Site Server/Generator with built-in preprocessing

•    Javascript

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Harp is a static web server that also serves Jade, Markdown, EJS, Less, Stylus, Sass, and CoffeeScript as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without any configuration. It supports the beloved layout/partial paradigm and it has flexible metadata and global objects for traversing the file system and injecting custom data into templates. Optionally, Harp can also compile your project down to static assets for hosting behind any valid HTTP server. Pre-compilers are becoming extremely powerful and shipping front-ends as static assets has many upsides. It's simple, it's easy to maintain, it's low risk, easy to scale, and requires low cognitive overhead. I wanted a lightweight web server that was powerful enough for me to abandon web frameworks for dead simple front-end publishing.

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metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.

•    Javascript

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An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator. In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Here's what the simplest blog looks like...

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wintersmith - A flexible static site generator

•    CoffeeScript

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Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator. It takes contents (markdown, less, scripts, etc), transforms them using plugins and outputs a static website (html, css, images, etc) that you can host anywhere. Where <path> is the location you want the site to be generated. This creates a skeleton site with a basic set of templates and some articles, while not strictly needed it's a good starting point.

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aws-git-backed-static-website - Git-backed Static Website powered entirely by AWS CloudFormation stack

•    Python

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This project contains a YAML CloudFormation template that creates a CodeCommit Git repository and a static https website, along with the necessary AWS infrastructure glue so that every change to content in the Git repository is automatically deployed to the static web site. The website can serve the exact contents of the Git repository, or a static site generator plugin (e.g., Hugo) can be specified on launch to automatically generate the site content from the source in the Git repository.

Gatsby - Blazing fast static site generator for React

•    Javascript

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Gatsby is a blazing fast static site generator for React. Gatsby.js is a static PWA (Progressive Web App) generator. You get code and data splitting out-of-the-box. Gatsby loads only the critical HTML, CSS, data, and JavaScript so your site loads as fast as possible. Once loaded, Gatsby prefetches resources for other pages so clicking around the site feels incredibly fast.

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Wyam - A modular static content and static site generator.

•    CSharp

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Wyam is a simple to use, highly modular, and extremely configurable static content generator that can be used to generate web sites, produce documentation, create ebooks, and much more. Since everything is configured by chaining together flexible modules (that you can even write yourself), the only limits to what it can create are your imagination. For more information see Wyam.io.

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katana - Laravel static site/blog generator with markdown support

•    PHP

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PHP static site & blog generator with markdown support. Using the power of laravel's Blade templating engine.

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Publii - Publii is a desktop-based CMS for Windows and Mac that makes creating static websites fast and hassle-free, even for beginners

•    HTML

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Publii is a desktop-based CMS for Windows, Mac and Linux that makes creating static websites fast and hassle-free, even for beginners. Unlike static-site generators that are often unwieldy and difficult to use, Publii provides an easy-to-understand UI much like server-based CMSs such as WordPress or Joomla!, where users can create posts and other site content, and style their site using a variety of built-in themes and options. Users can enjoy the benefits of a super-fast and secure static website, with all the convenience that a CMS provides.

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gollum-site - Static Site Generator for Gollum Wikis

•    Ruby

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Generates a static site from a Gollum Wiki. The static site generator uses the Liquid templating system to render wiki pages. The generator looks for _Layout.html files to use as templates. Layouts affect all pages in their directory and any subdirectories that do not have a layout file of their own.