Discussion on: Which is the Best Static Site Generator and Why?

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Better is very broad. Better in what? Better documentation? Better in build speed?

I can't say which one is better. I've tried Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo and Gatsby and I finally opted with gatsby because is very easy to start with, has a very good documentation, lot of plugins and what not. But the other three where perfectly fine options. Do you like ruby? Jekyll. Do you preffer golang? Hugo. Do you like react? Gatsby...

Oyetoke Toby • May 30 '19

I prefer Gatsby(React), Hugo(Go), Cactus(Python/Django). My basic language is Python, Javascript, Go

Bhupesh Varshney 👾 • May 30 '19

Is there one for Python 😅😅 ?
I am currently using jekyll-now but do not know ruby 😅😅

Landreville • May 30 '19 • Edited

There's Nikola which isn't very well known, but I've found it easy to theme and customize heavily.

And Lektor which seems promising and allows defining custom models for posts (to have different metadata, templates, etc depending on the type of post).

Oyetoke Toby • May 30 '19

There's Cactus

Ryan Frazier • Jun 6 '19 • Edited

Not exactly python, but 11ty uses nunjucks, a port of jinja2 to javascript, so should feel very familiar. I have been able to do some cool things with it.

Florian Rand • May 30 '19

This is the only one I know github.com/getpelican/pelican but I'm sure if you search in google static site generator python there must be a few.

Bhupesh Varshney 👾 • May 30 '19

Yeah i have done that
Doesn't seem soo good
😭

E.R. Nurwijayadi • Jan 17 '20

Does anynone know how to setup pelican for use with bitbucket.io ?

Prahlad Yeri • Jun 3 '19 • Edited

I was in the same boat, switched to Pelican recently and never been happier! Its the python equivalent of ruby's jekyll.

Edison Ade • Aug 8 '19

What makes it standout? checked out the website and can't find anything interesting

Miron • Jun 9 '22

If you want interesting, don't look for a static site generator :)

Omid • Feb 28 '21

hey, Pelican is Python base :)

John Bokma • Oct 28 '19

I have written one in Python: github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

You can see the site I generate with it at plurrrr.com/

Oyetoke Toby • May 30 '19

Which do you prefer and best for your needs and the reasons

Florian Rand • May 30 '19 • Edited

I like Gatsby and Hugo. I Ditched Hugo because I disliked its templating syntax, but that is a silly reason, just didn't like it.

{{ $title := .Site.Title }}
<ul>
{{ range .Params.tags }}
    <li>
        <a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>
        - {{ $title }}
    </li>
{{ end }}
</ul>

I tried Gatsby and felt in love with it. Things like styled components and another few from the react ecosystem make Gatsby very attractive and fun to use. Another plus is that I can use my react experiments in my personal site and vice versa.

Pavel Svitek • Jun 13 '19

+1. It reminds me of PHP -> too many special characters for no good reason.

Bayu Angora • Sep 30 '19

Why you complicate your code with that code?

{{ $title := .Site.Title }}
<ul>
{{ range .Params.tags }}
    <li>
        <a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>
        - {{ $title }}
    </li>
{{ end }}
</ul>

What if make your code simpler like this?

<ul>
{{ range .Params.tags }}
    <li>
        <a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>
        - {{ .Site.Title }}
    </li>
{{ end }}
</ul>

Florian Rand • Sep 30 '19 • Edited

I copy pasted it from hugo itself, ask the developer :).

Besides, that variable that you removed it's probably used in more parts of the code I copy-pasted.