myles/awesome-static-generators

Awesome Static Web Site Generators is a community-maintained reference list of tools that build static websites. A static website generator takes plain text files, usually written in a simple format like Markdown, and compiles them into finished HTML pages that can be hosted anywhere without a database or server-side application running behind them. The concept is simple: write your content, run the tool, and the output is a folder of ready-to-deploy web pages. The list organizes entries by what they are built for. The Blogs section covers tools designed around posts, feeds, and archives, and includes well-known options like Jekyll (Ruby), Hexo (JavaScript), Pelican (Python), and Eleventy (JavaScript) alongside dozens of smaller or newer alternatives. Other sections cover tools aimed at documentation sites, marketing pages, single-page sites, photography portfolios, and wikis. There is also a CMS section for tools that add a content management layer on top of static generation, and a Frameworks section for more general-purpose building blocks. Because static site generation is a common need with low implementation overhead, the list spans a wide range of programming languages. Entries are tagged by language, so you can find generators written in Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, PHP, Elixir, Julia, Clojure, Zig, and others. A Tools and Services section covers hosting options and utilities that complement the generators. This is a plain list, not a ranking or a recommendation. It is part of the broader curated awesome list ecosystem on GitHub, where communities maintain similar reference documents for many technical topics.