bevry / staticsitegenerators-list

A comprehensive, partially automatically generated comparison of static site generators

Static Site Generators Listing

A comprehensive, partially automatically generated comparison of static site generators with some minimal meta data about them

• View the source listing | Edit the source listing
• View the raw JSON listing
• View the rendered JSON listing
• View the website | View the website source

Contributing

Requirements

There are generally three types of Content Management Systems:

1. Dynamic Servers (e.g. WordPress, Ghost, DocPad, Harp) — these allow you to have re-render on every request abilities
2. Flat File Content Management Systems (e.g. Yellow, Techy) — these allow you to write your content as files
3. Static Site Generators (e.g. Jekyll, DocPad) — these generate a static website from your input that you can deploy anywhere

Currently, this listing is only for projects that relate to Flat File Content Management Systems and/or Static Site Generators, but not for projects which relate only to Dynamic Servers (such as WordPress and Ghost).

Adding

Entries are stored within the source/list.ts file.

Entries must conform to the RawEntry type.

Testing

When you submit your pull request, your submission will be automatically tested, so no need to test locally, however if you do wish to, you can:

1. Install Node.js (5-15 minutes)

2. Fork the project and clone your fork - guide (5 minutes)

3. Install local dependencies (1 minute)

   npm install

4. Running the tests (1 minute)

   npm test

5. Make any changes that the tests indicate, commit your changes, and submit

Usage

Complete API Documentation.

Using the npm package is done like so:

const listing = require('staticsitegenerators')

// get the hydrated data
console.log(listing.hydrated)

// get the raw data
console.log(listing.raw)

History

Discover the release history by heading on over to the HISTORY.md file.

Backers

Maintainers

These amazing people are maintaining this project:

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions
• Craig Davison — view contributions
• Jasper Van der Jeugt — view contributions

Sponsors

No sponsors yet! Will you be the first?

Contributors

These amazing people have contributed code to this project:

• AJ ONeal — view contributions
• Adam Bien — view contributions
• Adrien Beudin — view contributions
• Aisbergg — view contributions
• Ale Muñoz — view contributions
• Aleksey Razbakov
• Alex Hoyau — view contributions
• Alex Lin — view contributions
• Alex Thompson — view contributions
• Alexander Elias — view contributions
• Alexandre Chopin — view contributions
• Alexandre González — view contributions
• Alexandre Grison — view contributions
• Alexey Kinev — view contributions
• Amit Upadhyay — view contributions
• Andrew Murray — view contributions
• Andrew_Mallis — view contributions
• Andy Miller — view contributions
• Ankush Gupta — view contributions
• Anthonny Quérouil — view contributions
• Anton Iarchuk — view contributions
• Anton Podviaznikov — view contributions
• Arnaud Ligny — view contributions
• Artem Krylysov — view contributions
• Artemy Tregubenko — view contributions
• Austin Lee — view contributions
• Barry Clark — view contributions
• Basil Peace — view contributions
• Bastian Venthur — view contributions
• Benjamin Henrion — view contributions
• Benjamin Klotz — view contributions
• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions
• Bill Humphries — view contributions
• Bosco Ho — view contributions
• Brett Estrade
• Byron Kellett — view contributions
• Byron LK — view contributions
• C Brown — view contributions
• Casey Brooks — view contributions
• Charles Lehner — view contributions
• Chris Dawson — view contributions
• Chris Warrick — view contributions
• Colin Chan — view contributions
• Craig Davison — view contributions
• Cthulhux — view contributions
• Daniela Knoll — view contributions
• Dario Castañé — view contributions
• Dave Glick — view contributions
• Dave Snider — view contributions
• David Caldwell — view contributions
• David Eads — view contributions
• David Herron — view contributions
• David Pennington — view contributions
• David Siaw — view contributions
• Denis — view contributions
• Denis Bernard — view contributions
• Denis Defreyne — view contributions
• Denis Defreyne — view contributions
• Doug Bell — view contributions
• Eric Alli — view contributions
• Evan Mattson — view contributions
• Evan Sonderegger — view contributions
• Gabi Nagy — view contributions
• Garrett Smith — view contributions
• George Ornbo — view contributions
• Guido Flohr — view contributions
• Hasnain Lakhani — view contributions
• Hugh Brown — view contributions
• Ian Sullivan — view contributions
• Iván Ávalos — view contributions
• Ivan Melnikov — view contributions
• Jack Hill — view contributions
• Jakub Neander — view contributions
• Jan Pecha — view contributions
• Japh — view contributions
• Jasper Van der Jeugt — view contributions
• Jeffrey Hicks — view contributions
• Jeremy Weinstein — view contributions
• Jex — view contributions
• Jim Campbell
• Jim Campbell — view contributions
• Joe Ipson
• Johanna — view contributions
• Johannes Boyne — view contributions
• John SJ Anderson — view contributions
• John Tait — view contributions
• Jon Schlinkert — view contributions
• Jonathan Bullock — view contributions
• Jonathan Foucher — view contributions
• Jorge Epuñan — view contributions
• Joshua Lloyd — view contributions
• Juho Vepsäläinen — view contributions
• Jérémie Bertrand — view contributions
• Kai Hendry — view contributions
• Karl Voit — view contributions
• Klaus Mueller — view contributions
• Koen Bok — view contributions
• Konstantin Tarkus — view contributions
• Kushal Das — view contributions
• Lance R. Vick — view contributions
• Leo Lamprecht — view contributions
• Leon Stafford — view contributions
• Lomig Lavnek — view contributions
• Lutz Roeder — view contributions
• M G Berberich — view contributions
• Magnar Sveen — view contributions
• Manu Zhang — view contributions
• Manvel Saroyan — view contributions
• Mark Benson — view contributions
• Mark Seuffert — view contributions
• Markus Fisch — view contributions
• Martin Angers — view contributions
• Masayuki Matsuki — view contributions
• Mathias Rangel Wulff — view contributions
• Matt Layman — view contributions
• Matthias Bethke — view contributions
• Max Thirouin — view contributions
• Michael Bleigh — view contributions
• Michael F. Lamb — view contributions
• Michał Ordon — view contributions
• Michel Müller — view contributions
• Mike Kreuzer — view contributions
• Mike Mitterer — view contributions
• Mikito Takada — view contributions
• MinchinWeb — view contributions
• Niels de Hoog — view contributions
• Oben Sonne — view contributions
• Olivier DOSSMANN — view contributions
• Oz N Tiram — view contributions
• Patrick Braune — view contributions
• Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pinheiro — view contributions
• Pawan Dubey — view contributions
• Philippe Bruhat — view contributions
• Pierre-Yves Ritschard — view contributions
• Rafael G. Martins — view contributions
• Ramiro Gómez — view contributions
• Ranmocy Sheng — view contributions
• Revoltech — view contributions
• Rhio Kim — view contributions
• Rob Loach — view contributions
• Robert — view contributions
• Romain Guerin — view contributions
• Roman Atachiants — view contributions
• Rudy Affandi — view contributions
• Rui Wang — view contributions
• Ryan Govostes — view contributions
• Ryan Zimmerman — view contributions
• Samantha Geitz — view contributions
• Samuel Dodson — view contributions
• Sebastian Aigner — view contributions
• Sergey Bronnikov — view contributions
• Seyi Ogunyemi — view contributions
• Shlomi Fish — view contributions
• Simon Dann — view contributions
• Stefan Göbel — view contributions
• Stefan Marsiske — view contributions
• StefanH — view contributions
• Steve Jamesson — view contributions
• Steve Moyer — view contributions
• Steven — view contributions
• Stéphane Klein — view contributions
• Subhash Chandran — view contributions
• Sunaina Pai — view contributions
• Suraj Shukla — view contributions
• Suriyaa Sundararuban — view contributions
• Sven Luijten — view contributions
• Tanky Woo — view contributions
• Taufik Nurrohman — view contributions
• Thane Thomson — view contributions
• Thibault Charbonnier — view contributions
• Thomas Ingram — view contributions
• Tim Hartmann — view contributions
• Tobias Reich — view contributions
• Todd Lucas — view contributions
• Tom Link — view contributions
• Toshiki Iga
• Toshiki Iga — view contributions
• Trevor Caira — view contributions
• Viktor Varland — view contributions
• W. Caleb McDaniel — view contributions
• Yangshun Tay — view contributions
• Yavuz Ege Özcan — view contributions
• Yo! Symfony — view contributions
• Yoshiya Hinosawa — view contributions
• Zsolt Udvari — view contributions
• ___^___ — view contributions
• bhuztez — view contributions
• dbohdan — view contributions
• farvardin — view contributions
• feinstaub — view contributions
• fiatjaf — view contributions
• goransv
• harijs.me — view contributions
• ipavl — view contributions
• jandecaluwe — view contributions
• kambrium — view contributions
• kangulardev — view contributions
• lecnim — view contributions
• mattn — view contributions
• nodiscc — view contributions
• packetrhino — view contributions
• partageit — view contributions
• sternenseemann — view contributions
• thierrybgentile — view contributions
• vikrantrathore — view contributions
• wifiextender — view contributions
• xorpd — view contributions
• xvweirong — view contributions
• yuzoolcode — view contributions
• zigg — view contributions
• Átila Camurça Alves — view contributions

Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

Unless stated otherwise all works are:

• Copyright © 2013+ Bevry Pty Ltd
• Copyright © 2013 Jasper Van der Jeugt

and licensed under:

• The Unlicense

staticsitegenerators-list's Issues

Add Blag

https://blag.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://github.com/venthur/blag
blog-aware, static site generator

Language: Python
License: MIT

Add sortastatic (go)

https://github.com/haldean/sortastatic

add more fields to the description

It would be nice to add more fields to the description here. For example, we could have:

• maturity (alpha/beta/etc)
• last release (number and date)
• programming language and LOC
• syntax (e.g. mdwn, pandoc, etc)
• templating system
• other features (cgi editing support, rsync deployment and what not)

I would even dare saying that the link to the github project isn't that important and could be replaced by just a link to the homepage... if we want to save space, that is.

AGPL is missing

The Affero GPL is missing as valid license. There are some SSG published under this license, for example Pelican.

HTMLy flat file cms

Please added https://github.com/danpros/htmly its flat file CMS :)

Thank you.

Update the npm package to provide `local`, `remote`, and `render(data, opts, next)`

This should fix the caching issues we are currently having. May wait for the https://github.com/bevry/feedr rewrite to complete.

Pelican is written in Python not HTML

In the list, HTML is in Pelican's language column.
Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic.(in Pelican Development Blog)

Could I fix it and send a pull request?

Move to SPDX codes for our licenses

So SPDX has emerged as the standard for license codes and formats — http://spdx.org/licenses/ — perhaps it would make sense for us to move to it over our current ad-hoc methodology now.

This would eliminate our current categorisation of the licenses (e.g. all GPL licenses together), but that may not actually be that useful in practicality over having the specific licenses actually listed.

Dual licenses could still be listed as the SPDX format supports that: https://github.com/kemitchell/spdx.js#composite-license-expressions

What's everyone's thoughts? /cc @bevry/ssg-listing-team

Removed handcrank due to lack of data

No SPDX license information or created_at date could be found. Original entry:

  {
    "name": "handcrank",
    "license": "BSD",
    "website": "http://pythonhosted.org/handcrank/",
    "language": "Python"
  },

Is it possible

to have my PR taken care of! :-)

Please put ipsumgenera

Hi,

Forward from here, I ask to you if you can include ipsumgenera to your list.

Thanks,

When complaining about automated fields, output specifically which fields for which entries are causing the problem

As the comparison diff is useless...

Example problem: #307 (comment)

PR welcome for whoever wants to take this.

The current code for it is at

staticsitegenerators-list/test.js

Lines 104 to 106 in dc2944a

	test('source data was the same as the corrected data', function () {
	equal(source, result, 'there was automated data written into the manual listing, this has been removed, run the tests again')
	})

Perhaps, we just need a better diffing algorithm, that just lists the keys. Could also be a key sorting issue, which https://github.com/bevry/sortobject could fix, if sorting is the issue.

Bug: Bitbucket entries not listed

As of now, there is exactly one entry (Latemp) in the list that has a bitbucket field (as described in the README).

But this entry does not appear on the website.

Obviously, there seems to be a bug.

Suggestion: Add an "abandoned" field

Some SSGs like Acrylamid have "abandoned" in their description (or repository). Maybe this should be unified for filtering?

Add support for gitlab repos

Creation date of webgen is false

Hi,

I just noticed that the creation date for webgen is false. It was created in autumn 2003 and the first release was in July 2004 (see http://webgen.gettalong.org/news.html).

I also didn't find a way to correct this because there is no creation date entry in list.yaml.

Best regards,
Thomas

Fetch project health information

/cc apiengine/ghstats#2

Separate flat files cms and static site generators

I think these two categories are very different and it would be good to separate them.

A flat system cms has no sql database, but it doesn't mean there's only one file modified per post, or that it is easily human-writable. I know one (pluxml) and files are in xml, so don't think you can easily write it and upload on the server, it's just a mess to do. It has to be managed with administation system for efficients result. Their use are closer cms use than static generator.

A new key could be introduce in list.yaml such as type : "flat" or type: "static"

Move to a JSON file

Would be nice for client-side people to be able to use it, without having to look into client side yaml parsers

Add entries from https://gist.github.com/max-arnold/6402386

https://gist.github.com/max-arnold/6402386

Levaing this here as a reminder for myself.

License unverifiable: DOS on Dope

https://dod.codeplex.com/workitem/1

Add support for NotABug repos

https://notabug.org/

Shall we broaden this listing for all Content Management Systems?

See #51 (comment)

Move repo to bevry organisation

Hi @jaspervdj

Can we move this repo to the Bevry organisation? I can get extra collaborators going and make sure the the Webhook URL for regenerating the website is always up to date (it is now out of date as the website hosting has changed).

I've invited you as a member of the Bevry org, so you should be able to accept that invite, then if you want transfer the repo across yourself via the repo settings.

Let me know your thoughts and if you have any questions.

Removed Prosopopee as repo is failing

  {
    "name": "Prosopopee",
    "license": "GPL",
    "github": "Psycojoker/prosopopee",
    "language": "Python",
    "description": "a static website generator a clone of exposure.co or medium"
  },

Add support for BitBucket repositories

Generator projects primarily hosted at BitBucket would benefit from extracting follower and fork stats not only from GitHub but also from BitBucket. For instance poole has more followers and forks at BitBucket.

Website not reflecting list

There are at least 463 entries in https://github.com/bevry/staticsitegenerators-list/blob/master/list.json but there are only 458 entries on https://staticsitegenerators.net/.

As an example, I see the project named 'sitio' in the source code but not in the website. Why is it so?

Removed JBlogfy as repo and website are failing

  {
    "name": "JBlogfy",
    "github": "wifiextender/jblogfy",
    "license": "GPL",
    "website": "https://wifiextender.github.io",
    "language": "JavaScript",
    "description": "Static blog written in JavaScript."
  },

Should there be a flag to explicitly disable getting the website from Github?

While maintaining the SSG list, I noticed that some (abandoned) projects still have a website entry which is now pointing to something entirely different, e.g. Bolt. Probably this should be respected.

Community maintained?

I'd love to help maintain this repository, I'm working on a campaign that will spread the benefits of static site generators, and would like to use this listing in it.

Site down: staticsitegenerators.net

It says

An error has occured when parsing the latest static site generators data feed:

YAMLException: duplicated mapping key at line 1829, column 28:
      website: "http://vlv.io/"
                               ^
  at generateError (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:161:10)
  at throwError (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:167:9)
  at storeMappingPair (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:304:7)
  at readBlockMapping (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1064:9)
  at composeNode (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1327:12)
  at readBlockSequence (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:923:5)
  at composeNode (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1326:12)
  at readDocument (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1490:3)
  at loadDocuments (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1546:5)
  at Object.load (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/js-yaml/lib/js-yaml/loader.js:1563:19)
  at module.exports.yaml.parse (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/out/lib/plugins.js:82:37)
  at generateParser (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/out/lib/feedr.js:246:16)
  at Request._callback (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/out/lib/feedr.js:474:18)
  at Request.self.callback (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/request/request.js:198:22)
  at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
  at Request.emit (events.js:172:7)
  at Request.<anonymous> (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/request/request.js:1035:10)
  at emitOne (events.js:82:20)
  at Request.emit (events.js:169:7)
  at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/travis/build/bevry/staticsitegenerators-website/node_modules/feedr/node_modules/request/request.js:962:12)
  at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
  at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
  at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:893:12)
  at doNTCallback2 (node.js:429:9)
  at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:384:17)

Typo in docs or really bad?

• is should be one of the following:
• file file cms

flat file cms, maybe?

Add grender

grender is also a static site generator.

add floatThead to improve UX when scrolling in large tables

your site could really use something like this:
http://mkoryak.github.io/floatThead/examples/hidden-columns/

I could create a pull request with the code if you could point me to where the template is located

automate removal of duplicates in contributing section

core of the problem is this: bevry/fellow#40

good first issue if anyone wants to have a crack

Removed desi due to lack of website or repo information

  {
    "name": "Desi",
    "license": "Apache",
    "language": "JavaScript",
    "description": "The DIY blog platform for normal people. Written to run in your browser, happens to run in node.js. Built with developers in mind."
  },

Needs at least website or github field.

Add licenses

Would be good to include licenses in this listing, as sometimes a license may be incompatible or undesirable. Especially if we get more closed-source premium offerings in the listing.

Add MkDocs

http://www.mkdocs.org/

Publii

You miss the greatest Static Site Generator: Publii :-)!

The great thing about Publii is that, it isn't just a Static Site Generator, it's also a full-fledged Content Management System!

You can find more about Publii here:
https://getpublii.com/

License: GPL-3.
Language: JavaScript
Created: here you can find the first blog post: https://getpublii.com/blog/publii-static-website-cms.html
Updated: 9 november 2020, +/- 3 months ago

Consolidate efforts

• http://staticsitegenerators.net/ uses this listing
• http://staticgen.com/ https://github.com/netlify/staticgen
• https://github.com/pinceladasdaweb/Static-Site-Generators
• http://www.mzlinux.org/?q=node/415
• http://modernstatic.com/
• http://bundlr.com/b/static-website-generators
• https://gist.github.com/max-arnold/6402386

Add Sitegen

https://github.com/leafo/sitegen

skx/templer included twice.

Although I appreciate twice as much traffic it seems a little unfair that my project is listed twice.

Please consolidate the two skx/templer entries!

Removals

This issue can be the accumulation of removals. Post a comment if you remove one with the content at time of removal.

Under what license do we release this data?

@balupton I'm up for using something CC, what do you think?

API for querying SSG data

There is currently no way to programmatically consume all SSG data. The data is partially in the YAML file, and additional data is fetched in the ssg.rb file, but the latter simply prints the fetched data and does not allow this data to be reused. This makes it hard to use this data in the nanoc web site.

Some suggestions:

• Have a bin/print-ssgs executable which does the printing, and lib/ which contains the code for fetching SSG data.
• Let ssg.rb print output in JSON format.

Add mkblog.sh

mkblog.sh is hosted in NotABug.org. It can't be added until there is support for NotABug repos (#294)

Motivation to create another list ?

are you aware of this project ?

https://github.com/netlify/staticgen
http://www.staticgen.com

why not sharing knowledge in one place ?

Add publii hybrid static site generat with CMS

Hi,
it would be interesting this project https://getpublii.com/

Get language automatically?

GitHub API provides access to repo languages. I guess Octokit must provide that too. I think it might be possible for you to generate that language property rather than having to type it manually.

Add Jekyde

https://github.com/zohooo/jekyde