Ask HN: What is the easiest to use static site generator?
I am trying to determine the easiest to use static site generator. I have found there are now several hundred static site generators and I understand most of these are forks of the main static site generators.
By easiest I mean the most user friendly to set-up and create a site, best documentation, and has an active group of users/community. It really boils down to your language preference: For Ruby: Jekyll http://jekyllrb.com or Middleman https://middlemanapp.com (in case you want a site rather than a blog)
For Python: Pelican http://blog.getpelican.com Inspired by your question I had a quick Google. This one seems quite easy http://gohugo.io. You download the built binary, no dependencies, lots of themes available. Had it working in a few minutes. (The git clone step didn't work for me but I just went to github and downloaded the zip.) Thanks for the tip on Hugo, it looks good will check it out. There are so many static s. gens. Checkout Olai, (http://olai.in), a hosted static site generator. Nothing to setup. Connect Amazon S3 or Github page and you are done. Bonus: Use your desktop blog editors, like MarsEdit. Disclosure: Olai is my baby. Pricing's a bit confusing. Is that 10 new posts a month or are you only allowed 10 posts ever? :) Jekyll. If you are just getting started, you can read this tutorial I wrote for SitePoint: What purpose are you using them for? I tried Jekyll and found it just got in the way of me creating sites, so I found Middleman. Middleman is much easier than Jekyll if you want to build any kind-of normal non-blog website. I was trying to want to build a simple kind-of normal non-blog website also. Thanks for the tip on Middleman. CityDesk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityDesk (or it was 15 years ago) >It really boils down to your language preference: I was looking for the easiest-setup, operation, posting on web, updating content etc. In this way I have only the preference of simple use. active groups of user/community: jekyll probably. jekyll documentation is good too. it's quite easy seems to fit with your needs.