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Discussion on: What is your favorite Static Site Generator and why?

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John Clayton

I recently had a look at a few and settled on Hugo. Gatsby was way too much like actually having to write code, and I want to seriously focus on the writing/content aspect more than the code. Jekyll was nice too - and of course it's attractive if you want to run via GitHub pages.

I didn't take a deeper look at many others - a one hour video tutorial on Hugo was enough to get started and now I have a site hosted on Netlify with push-to-publish interaction via GitHub - what more could I ask for :-)

I would say it also depends strongly on what you are trying to present / create.

Good luck!

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Markus Hunsalz

Thx @johncclayton for your feedback.

For sure Gatsby, Jekyll and Hugo are parts of this outstanding crowd of projects. In addition hosting providers with a "push-to-publish" ease the interaction considerably.

Actually it’s an obvious truth that it depends on what web project you are working. But I’m still curious if JAMStack / SSGs is hype or trend or already mainstream?