Hacker News - Newest: "static site"https://news.ycombinator.com/newestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:20:47 +0000<![CDATA[Show HN: A static site generator that prettifies the output HTML]]>I recently stripped out Django from my personal site and converted it to a static site, using `staticjinja`.

I found myself writing a lot of custom code to get my site going because I wanted to use Jinja templating inside Markdown.

Once I was done, I decided to strip out `staticjinja` in favour of my own site generator.

And so Jinjabread was born!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837146

Points: 71

# Comments: 44

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:52:10 +0000https://github.com/jdeanwallace/jinjabreadjdeanwallacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837146https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837146
<![CDATA[A static site generator for Swift developers]]>Article URL: https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797484

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

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Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:34:18 +0000https://github.com/twostraws/Ignitefrizlabhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797484
<![CDATA[Bevy ECS as a data layer for static site generation with Leptos]]>Article URL: https://www.nikl.me/blog/2024/bevy_ecs_as_data_layer_in_leptos_ssg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746106

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:46:54 +0000https://www.nikl.me/blog/2024/bevy_ecs_as_data_layer_in_leptos_ssg/sridhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746106https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746106
<![CDATA[Show HN: PubCrank- the Markdown editor for your static site generator]]>PubCrank is a static website editor that is designed for developers, content creators, and editors. It lets a developer setup a static website in generators like Astro, Eleventy (11ty), Hugo, and Jekyll with guardrails for creators and editors to change content without breaking the style and layouts of the site.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719212

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:41:24 +0000https://www.pubcrank.md/cyberpantherhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719212
<![CDATA[WorstPress: The world's worst static site generator]]>Article URL: https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714250

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:12:17 +0000https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpresssurprisetalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714250
<![CDATA[Create static site in Drupal with Tome]]>Article URL: https://desainova.com/posts/static-site-in-drupal-with-tome/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708806

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:51:16 +0000https://desainova.com/posts/static-site-in-drupal-with-tome/joseMDhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708806https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708806
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What's the best static site generator for photography portfolios?]]>I've been using Squarespace to power my personal website, which is mostly just a photography portfolio, for a while now. Since that's pretty much all it does, it hurts to pay Squarespace so much to power it.

At the same time, I spend all of my working life arguing with computers to get them to do things, so I don't have much appetite for more involved coding side projects.

Does anybody have thoughts or recommendations on a static site generator that works great for photography portfolios?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658431

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

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Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:54:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658431cianmmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658431
<![CDATA[Displaying dynamic content on a Pages static site]]>Article URL: https://cloud.gov/pages/knowledge-base/website-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39655019

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:50:05 +0000https://cloud.gov/pages/knowledge-base/website-api/petethomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39655019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39655019
<![CDATA[An open-source static site generator for data apps]]>Article URL: https://observablehq.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39599767

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:26:51 +0000https://observablehq.com/selvanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39599767https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39599767
<![CDATA[Show HN: Statichost.eu – privacy-first static site hosting]]>Excited to announce StaticHost.eu - a privacy-first static site hosting service! No logging whatsoever apart from usage metrics, and hosted on Hetzner who own and operate their own data centers.

Based on the git workflow where updates trigger a clone-build-deploy-publish. Other notable characteristics:

- Clones from any git repository, even a folder on an SSH box

- Can use any Docker image to perform the site generation (i.e. build)

The classic story of something I built for myself that eventually became a something more. Still not ready, but when is such a thing ever ready...

Feedback and questions extremely welcome! :)


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541967

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:36:46 +0000https://www.statichost.eu/ericselinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541967
<![CDATA[Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers]]>Article URL: https://pgs.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538335

Points: 168

# Comments: 48

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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:25:51 +0000https://pgs.shqudathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538335https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538335
<![CDATA[Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site]]>Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

Points: 1783

# Comments: 798

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Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:29:37 +0000https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/laubonghaudoihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776
<![CDATA[Show HN: Latex styled Jekyl static site, with auto-numbered section headings]]>Article URL: https://gyanantaran.github.io/blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431181

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:59:00 +0000https://gyanantaran.github.io/blog/gyanantaranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431181https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431181
<![CDATA[Observable Framework: A static site generator for data apps, dashboards, reports]]>Article URL: https://github.com/observablehq/framework

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388237

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

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Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:23:21 +0000https://github.com/observablehq/frameworkthunderbonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388237
<![CDATA[Evidence, a static site generator for data apps]]>Article URL: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387138

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:17:47 +0000https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidenceamcaskillhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387138https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387138
<![CDATA[Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps]]>Article URL: https://observablehq.com/blog/observable-2-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383386

Points: 655

# Comments: 153

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Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:57:49 +0000https://observablehq.com/blog/observable-2-0tmcwhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383386
<![CDATA[Static Site Generator (SSG) as a Free Squarespace Alternative?]]>I'm a novice with no expertise in website building or design. I went with Squarespace for a business site because they were the cheapest noob-friendly option I could find at the time. But I've had lots of problems with them, and they regularly raise their prices, and their cheapest plan is currently $16/mo ($170/yr), and they lock features like javascript code behind even higher prices.

When I was looking into wiki/documentation site options, I found *Static Site Generators* (SSG), which create static websites that are *free to host* with netlify, github pages, Cloudflare pages, etc. They have templates and features built-in so you can often just create some markdown files and they're quickly transformed into a beautiful, fast, secure, free website. You often don't need technical knowledge/expertise, but you can customize them further if you have that.

https://jamstack.org/generators/ has a list of them. *MKDocs Material theme* is pretty elaborate and popular for hosting *documentation/wikis*. If you compare it to bookstackapp.com for example, *bookstack* requires paid hosting since it's not static, and requires much more technical expertise to get running and to customize. I find MKdocs Material to be pretty user/noob-friendly, with good documentation and easy customization. Other SSGs can require a lot more technical knowledge or be less easily-customizable.

But MKDocs Material doesn't seem great for a general business website. After learning about SSGs I realized that my Squarespace site is all static content and should be replaceable with an SSG. I've been *trying to find an SSG that's as good for general sites as MKDocs Material is for wikis*.

# Comparisons:

- https://medium.com/@nampara17/whats-the-best-cms-for-static-websites-12364ab911ef

- https://teleporthq.io/blog/popular-static-site-generators

- https://tiiny.host/blog/10-best-cms-static-sites/

- https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/static-site-generators-a-beginners-guide/321745

*Hugo, Gatsby, Eleventy (11ty), and Astro* are the main ones I see recommended for noobies. They all have themes or "starter projects" you can use as templates. The difficulty is finding a theme/template that's as good for a regular website as MKDocs Material is for documentation/wikis.

For example Jekyll has tons -- https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/, and it would be difficult to browse through and test all of them. I happened to come across this one -- https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/about/ -- which looks quite good for both documentation and general sites, but the search cannot find links (_which is important for my documentation site_).

I found a Hugo theme that seemed good but the dev wasn't active on github and people were having unanswered problems.

*Middleman* is another SSG that sounds good, but their theme page doesn't have any pictures or quick links to demo sites, so it would be even more difficult to check them all out.

And looking into them more, I'm told that *Astro* requires javascript, CSS, and html knowledge. *Eleventy* (11ty) also requires JS and HTML coding. And *Gatsby* doesn't look that simple either https://www.sitepoint.com/gatsby-guide/.

*Publii* (static site CMS) was recommended as noob-friendly but it's extremely limited. I didn't like it at all.

*TeleportHQ* is MUCH better than Publii, but it's not intuitive or easy enough to use to be a good replacement for Squarespace IMO.

*Plasmic, Webflow, and Couch CMS* seem to be similar options.

_(Hit character limit; continued in comments)_

Oh wow, there's no formatting...


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216383

Points: 8

# Comments: 17

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Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:35:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216383MaximilianKohlrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216383
<![CDATA[Adding ActivityPub to your static site]]>Article URL: https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-site/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205840

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:38:27 +0000https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-site/thebestmoshehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205840
<![CDATA[Pgs.sh: A zero-dependency static site hosting service for hackers]]>Article URL: https://pgs.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39153001

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

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Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:55:17 +0000https://pgs.sh/thunderbonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39153001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39153001
<![CDATA[Zola – Single binary static site generator]]>Article URL: https://github.com/getzola/zola

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069502

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

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Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:49:44 +0000https://github.com/getzola/zolaredman25https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069502