What is the simplest static site framework?

What is the most minimal, straightfoward, and simple static site generator?

Maybe not the best, but the one with fewer moving pieces and an easy onboarding.

Comments

[Ata]

I asked myself the same question then I built a simple vanilla PHP & HTML static site generator that deploys to GitHub Pages by default: github.com/atas/ssg
I hope it becomes useful.

[Geoff]

You can go old school, and just use plain HTML and CSS.
For static website forms fabform is good choce too.

[Jigar Shah]

I have found TezJS a very easy and amazing Static Site Generator.

TezJS uses Vue as a primary language and helps you build JAMstack website. Even though, if you have a basic understanding about JavaScript, you could easily build website using TezJS.

GitHub - github.com/tezjs/tezjs

[Christopher Wray]

I love Nuxt static site options. I’m using it for my portfolio here.

[Adrian Emil Grigore]

Hi,

Sorry I'm late to the party! You may prefer to take a look at mkws.sh/.

[John Bokma]

The static site generator I wrote, of course! :-). It uses a single Markdown-ish input file to generate the static site (main focus is a blog) and you can either use the Perl or Python version. I use it for my blog Plurrrr.

[Sabitha Kuppusamy]

I would suggest netlify.com/. It is great for static sites. Recently, I tried using this for my react project and it is cool to use. It is integrated with Github. Whenever you make changes to your repository, the changes will be automatically reflected on your site which is hosted using netlify.

[Paul (hxii) Glushak]

I know my reply is a bit late, but I was checking these out myself.
Ended up making my own - Saishō. Very educational and fits my needs.

[Jérémie Astor]

there's this low hanging fruit I found from suckless site:
a bsh script called ssg.