Web_Designer_UK__May_2018

10 BEST STATIC SITE GENERATORS
5. NUXT
https://nuxtjs.org
PRO : UseNUXTtotake
advantage of Vue.js for your
static sites
Vue.js has gained immense popularity
as a front-end framework in recent
years, due to its combination of a
gentle learning curve, high
performance and powerful feature set.
Nuxt.js is actually a framework for
creating server-rendered Vue
applications – that is, dynamic pages
which are rendered by the server
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7. PELICAN
http://docs.getpelican.com
before being passed in their
completed form to the client to display.
However, it can also be use to build
static sites, with a command line
parameter that will build static
HTML pages for all routes through a
Vue project.
Since Nuxt is a Vue framework,
familiarity with Vue will be necessary
to use it, but developers who have
worked with Vue before will feel right
at home. And, like Vue, it also brings a
component-based approach to
development of your sites.
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6. MKDOCS
www.mkdocs.org
PRO : MkDocs might well be the
easiest way to create websites for
project documentation
MkDocs is more specialised than the
tools we’ve looked at up until now. It
sets out with one very simple
objective in mind: to provide a fast
and easy-to-use way to generate
HTML sites for project
documentation. And it absolutely
succeeds at doing this. It’s built in
Python, so you’ll need Python and
pip (Python package manager)
installed to get it.
After that, getting started is easy.
Documentation is written in
Markdown, and the tool is
configured using a single YAML file.
The command-line build process is
as simple as it could be.
The MkDocs GitHub page
includes a number of themes which
are specially designed for
documentation, or you can build
HTML for your own theme.
MkDocs is one of the easiest
static site generators to get started
with, and if documentation is your
use case, there really isn’t much
cause to look at other tools.
PRO : Pelican is a highly popular
static blog generator built in
Python
Pelican supports content written in
multiple languages, including the
ubiquitous Markdown. It uses the Jinja
templating engine, which is both easy
to use and extremely powerful,
meaning that while Pelican is primarily
optimised for building blogs, it is also
well suited to building a wide range of
different types of other sites. It’s also
fast, and can comfortably handle sites
with thousands of pages without
making you wait for them to build.
Like many of the leading static site
generators, Pelican allows you to
import your site from a variety of
blogging platforms. This makes it
trivial to convert an existing site built
with WordPress or many other
popular content management
systems. If you’re familiar with
Python, and especially if you’ve used
7.
Jinja templates before, Pelican is a
very safe choice.
Conversely, however, it may be a
little harder to get to grips with for
developers who are more familiar with
JavaScript or Ruby.
“ WHILE PELICAN IS
PRIMARILY
OPTIMISED FOR
BUILDING BLOGS, IT
IS ALSO WELL-
SUITED TO BUILDING
A WIDE RANGE OF
DIFFERENT TYPES OF
OTHER SITES ”
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