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If you are starting a new website, consider using Hugo. Other than it is “the world’s fas...
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Could you explain this?
If you use the popular tool you won't use the others which means the popular tool will become more popular and attract more people, which in turns it makes it become more popular and so on :D
I see. Thank you for the clarification.
Hugo is popular, you are right. But it is also great, in my opinion.
Maybe it is popular because it is great. :D
What do you mean?
You could use Netlify to deploy the website to production, if that is what you srw referring to.
I Totally Agree with you.
Who knows, there might be an awesome Static Site Generator out there in a GitHub Repo with only a Single Star
Wow, that is a great list.
I already heard about Pelican and Grav, and they are pretty popular, according to the number of stars. They were brought to my attention by the Lobster community, but I haven't had time to explore it yet. I never heard of Coleslaw.
I am already familiar with Jekyll, Hexo, and Middleman, and I even wrote an overview about them:
dev.to/starbist/overview-of-popula...
Thank you for bringing the attention to other frameworks, too.
You could set up Hugo to work on GitHub pages, too:
gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/h...
Looks interesting for personal projects; thanks for the highlight.
Professionally, I stay away from static site gens because managing them at scale can be a real nightmare. Just be sure you choose it for the right reasons; would be my advice to others looking into it.
At what scale are we talking about here?
I wouldn't rule out static page generators for bigger projects. It doesn't have to be a problem to maintain the website if the structure is well organized. I am part of the two separate projects that are not simple, and maintenance is not a nightmare at all. :)
Okay, I understand your point of view.
Could you provide some useful links to frameworks you mentioned? Or could you write what is so great about it?
Sure, that's the best combination :D
Right? 🤐
I love Hugo! Making a PWA with an above 95 Lighthouse score is surprisingly easy. Even for someone like me, who's not a front-end engineer. :)
I am glad you like it.
Well, you could set up A/B testing, custom hooks, branch deploys, handle form sumbissions, and many more. And all that for free!
Netlify is awesome.
I hear you, but I don' get it.
If you set up Netlify, then you could configure a trigger to start a new build on every push.
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