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I've been trying out some documentation site generator tools out there and I tried 3 of them to test. These were not randomly chosen but picked 3 from a lot after reading about many of the ones there are online. This is for a product documentation at...

Lume is a new static site generator based on Deno. Deno is a JavaScript-based run-time environment that supports TypeScript. Lume is not built around any specific language. It supports Markdown, Nunjucks, TypeScript, and JavaScript by default. Lume ...

What is Eleventy? Eleventy (also called 11ty) is a simple yet powerful static site generator. It uses JavaScript to transform data and templates into HTML pages. It’s beginner-friendly, has fast build times, and generates fast sites by default. It al...

I recently decided to switch Boot.dev's blog from WordPress to a static site generator. I decided on Hugo, partly because I’m a huge fan of the Go programming language, but also because it just seemed like the best option from a dev-experience perspe...

By Aaron Katz I wanted to set up a fun project for myself to learn some new technologies. And this time I decided I wanted to learn a bit about Static Site Generators (SSGs). My goal was to build a blog using an SSG and have it deploy any time the co...

Static websites are as old as the web itself. But the rise of JavaScript has opened the door to make those static sites more dynamic. While that can include building an HTML file by hand, how can we leverage static generation to build apps with mode...

In this article, we'll compare the nuances of creating themes for the top two static site generators. I recently took on the task of creating a documentation site theme for two projects. Both projects needed the same basic features, but one uses Jeky...
