[0az]

A while back, I got tired of dealing with the mess of Gatsby, Next.js, and Vuepress, so I made my own static site generator in Python.

I don't want a GraphQL database for my static site. I just want something to template out my site's boilerplate, and I don't want to deal with Webpack speed, or lack thereof. One file, ~200 loc, and I understand all of it.

The tentatively named Zhi works fast enough for full rebuilds triggered by fswatch. It does one thing and does it well:

  fswatch -0 -e .venv -e out . | xargs -0 zhi build

If there's interest in a simple, understandable Jinja-based static site generator, I can clean it up and release it: https://github.com/0az/zhi (empty repo).

[BossingAround]

If you didn't like Gatsby, why not simply use one of the tens of simpler static generators? Hugo is extremely popular, but also just Jekyll or something similar. You won't understand the whole codebase, most likely, but on a user level, it's literally just a "put a markdown file in this directory" type of a thing for most of these generators...