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A collection of awesome static website compiler / builder / generator goodies (tools, templates 'n' themes, plugins 'n' extensions, guides, services, etc.)

Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks.

Table of Contents

General

All Static Website Compilers / Builders / Generators

Directories / Listings • Showcases

Directories / Listings

Let a thousand website compiler bloom

Static Gen (web: staticgen.com) -- top 100+ static site builders / generators; sort by github stars or by programming language and more

Static Site Generators (web: staticsitegenerators.net) -- 400+ static site builders / generators; sort by github stars or by programming language and more

Showcases

One sample, many static website builds

Stay Static Website Compiler Samples (web: staystatic.github.io, github: staystatic) -- covers Jekyll (Ruby), Middleman (Ruby), Hugo (Go), Metalsmith (JavaScript/Node.js) and others; showing how to use pages, posts and custom types (e.g. bookmarks 'n' links)

Adventure Time! Static Website Samples (github: remotesynth/Static-Site-Samples) by Brian Rinaldi -- covers Jekyll (Ruby), Middleman (Ruby), Harp (JavaScript), Hexo (JavaScript), Wintersmith (JavaScript/CoffeeScript), Hugo (Go)

Quick References (Cheat Sheets)

By Language

Ruby • Python • PHP • JavaScript / Node.js • Go • Haskell

Ruby

  1. Jekyll ★24,888 (gem: jekyll ⇓2,196,090)
  2. Middleman ★5,118 (gem: middleman ⇓1,035,325)
  3. Nanoc ★1,347 (gem: nanoc ⇓233,529)
  4. Awestruct ★226 (gem: awestruct ⇓139,452)
  5. webgen ★90 (gem: webgen ⇓90,154)

Note: If no update for 1+ year than tool no longer listed e.g. Statis ★715 (Nov 2013; gem v0.2.0 - Jan 2013), Ruhoh ★627 (Sep 2014; gem v2.6 - Dec 2013), Webby ★278 (officially discontinued, Aug 2011; v0.9.4 - Apr 2009)

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Links

Python

  1. Pelican ★5,687 (pypi: pelican ⇓9,395/month)
  2. Nikola ★979 (pypi: Nikola ⇓4,360/month)
  3. Cactus ★2,704 (pypi: Cactus ⇓1,623/month)
  4. Lektor ★1,732 (pypi: Lektor ⇓1,519/month)
  5. Hyde ★1,278 (pypi: hyde ⇓1,013/month)

PHP

  1. Sculpin ★952 (composer: sculpin/sculpin ⇓13,312)
  2. Jigsaw ★370 (composer: tightenco/jigsaw ⇓327)
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JavaScript / Node.js

  1. Hexo ★9,610 (npm: hexo ⇓15,792/month)
  2. Metalsmith ★4,692 (npm: metalsmith ⇓22,053/month)
  3. Harp ★3,782 (npm: harp ⇓8,015/month)
  4. Wintersmith ★2,806 (npm: wintersmith ⇓2,971/month)
  5. Gatsby ★2,650 (npm: gatsby ⇓2,898/month)

Links

Go

  1. Hugo ★9,476
  2. gor ★472
  3. Ink ★336
  4. gostatic ★298

Links

Haskell

  1. Hakyll ★1,228 (hackage: hakyll ⇓33,613)
  2. yst ★198 (hackage: yst ⇓3,745)

Java

  1. JBake ★392

.NET / C-Sharp

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  1. Pretzel ★443

Lua

  1. Luapress ★101 (luarocks: fizzadar/luapress ⇓211)

Erlang

  1. Lambda Pad ★84

HTML Tester / Checker / Linter / Proofer

htmltest ★20 -- html test tool (in go)

More Bookmarks 'n' Links

Awesome Static Website Services (github: aharris88/awesome-static-website-services)

Awesome Static Website Generators (github: myles/awesome-static-generators)

Awesome Markdown (github: writekit/awesome-markdown) -- write your article and posts in plain text with markdown formatting and conventions

{Static is} The New Dynamic (web: thenewdynamic.org) -- static site links, showcases, events and more

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