Plenty of static site generators, as they're called, exist to do this. Good jumping-off points would be investigating Jekyll (written in Ruby) and Hugo (written in Golang).
https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
https://github.com/spf13/hugo
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The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
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The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
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- Open Elements (open source community site) — FrontStudio project — FrontStudio published a case study showing they built and shipped the Open Elements site using Hugo as the static site generator. Source
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A fast and flexible static site generator built with love by bep, spf13, and friends in Go.
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Overview
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.
Due to its flexible framework, multilingual support, and powerful taxonomy system, Hugo is widely used to create:
Corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event, and project sites
Documentation sites
Image portfolios
Landing pages
Business, professional, and personal blogs
Resumes and CVs
Use Hugo's embedded web server during development to instantly see changes to content, structure, behavior, and presentation. Then deploy the site to your host, or push changes to your Git provider for automated builds and deployment.
Hugo's fast asset pipelines include:
CSS Processing – Bundle, transform, minify, create source maps, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS.
Image processing – Convert, resize, crop, rotate, adjust colors, apply filters, overlay text and images, and extract metadata
JavaScript bundling – Transpile TypeScript and JSX to JavaScript, bundle, tree shake, minify, create source maps, and perform SRI hashing.
Sass processing – Transpile Sass to CSS, bundle, tree shake, minify, create source maps, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS
Tailwind CSS processing – Compile Tailwind CSS utility classes into standard CSS, bundle, tree shake, optimize, minify, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS
And with Hugo Modules, you can share content, assets, data, translations, themes, templates, and configuration with other projects via public or private Git repositories.
See the features section of the documentation for a comprehensive summary of Hugo's capabilities.
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Editions
Hugo is available in two editions. Use the standard edition unless you need additional features.
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(1) Deploy your site directly to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, an AWS S3 bucket, or an Azure Storage container. See details.
Installation
Install Hugo from a prebuilt binary, package manager, or package repository. Please see the installation instructions for your operating system:
macOS
Linux
Windows
DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD
Build from source
To build Hugo from source you must install:
Git
Go version 1.27.0 or later
Standard edition
To build and install the standard edition:
CGO_ENABLED=0 go install github.com/gohugoio/hugo@latest
Deploy edition
To build and install the deploy edition:
CGO_ENABLED=0 go install -tags withdeploy github.com/gohugoio/hugo@latest
Documentation
Hugo's documentation includes installation instructions, a quick start guide, conceptual explanations, reference information, and examples.
Please submit documentation issues and pull requests to the documentation repository.
Support
Please do not use the issue queue for questions or troubleshooting. Unless you are certain that your issue is a software defect, use the forum.
Hugo's forum is an active community of users and developers who answer questions, share knowledge, and provide examples. A quick search of over 20,000 topics will often answer your question. Please be sure to read about requesting help before asking your first question.
Contributing
You can contribute to the Hugo project by:
Answering questions on the forum
Improving the documentation
Monitoring the issue queue
Creating or improving themes
Squashing bugs
Please submit documentation issues and pull requests to the documentation repository.
If you have an idea for an enhancement or new feature, create a new topic on the forum in the "Feature" category. This will help you to:
Determine if the capability already exists
Measure interest
Refine the concept
If there is sufficient interest, create a proposal. Do not submit a pull request until the project lead accepts the proposal.
For a complete guide to contributing to Hugo, see the Contribution Guide.
License
For the Hugo source code, see LICENSE.
We also bundle some libraries in binary/WASM form:
libwebp, BSD-3-Clause license
Katex, MIT license
QuickJS, License
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
7 sourcesI started developing my blog using Octropress (Jekyll derivative) many years back. I painfully installed it the first time (Ruby dependencies). I tried upgrading to Octopress 2.0 probably 2 years back, but I was never successfully able to install all the dependencies on my work machine. More than that, I never got it working on multiple platforms. I wished to be able to post to my blog from both home (Windows) and work (RHEL6.6), but that just wasn't possible.
Hugo was a breath of fresh air:
- Easy to install (auto-installs all the dependent go packages without a hitch, and results in a single static binary!)
- Easy to set up a web page (hardly took 10 minutes)
Having the basic web site building going, I can now tinker as I like with the layouts, config.toml, etc. Hugo has allowed me to focus more on my web site content and design than bu
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rning time figuring out how to successfully install (and keep upgraded) the web site building. (All I need to do to update hugo to the latest and greatest is: "go get -u -v github.com/spf13/hugo").
Hugo – A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator Built with Love in GoLang
3 points · Open discussionThey are woefully undocumented.
Well, that perhaps isn't fair... fairer would be to say that there isn't an authoritative set of examples showing how people can achieve things similar to something like Django templating or Rails templating. It is actually fairly effortless to nest templates, extend them with custom functions, and all of the things one would need to do.
Probably one of the best resources is Hugo: https://gohugo.io/templates/go-templates/ and the funcs (template tags) they ship.
That isn't too bad at all, but the snippets and examples are so small that it's hard to really see what the value is and how it all glues together to create nice readable templates.
Anyhow, the key place to look at template tags would be:
1. Hugo's source code for template funcs: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/blob/master/tpl/template_funcs...
2. Hug
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o's creation of the func map: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/blob/master/tpl/template_funcs...
3. Hugo's documentation on the funcs: https://gohugo.io/templates/functions/
Those three things, viewed as one, should allow any Go dev to extend templates to do whatever you want them to do.
Hugo have been very "functional" in their choice of template tags, but there's huge scope for new packages to deliver more aesthetic tags, or tags for localization, to humanise time and plurals, basically to provide a core resource of tags similar to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/templates/builtins... so that each dev doesn't implement their own.
I use Hugo (https://github.com/spf13/hugo) to generate both the DynomiteDB website and blog.
I've tried many different blogging solutions and I find Hugo to be exceptionally easy, especially when combined with GitHub pages.
The current blogging workflow to publish an article is only 3 steps:
vi some-new-post.md && ./build && git push
There are SEO benefits to having your website and blog use the same domain, which is one more reason why we chose this route.
In Ask HN: How do you blog for your startup/site?I find Go to be a great language for writing cross-platform applications. Cross-compilation and static linking for pure Go programs can simplify distribution of binaries greatly. Tools like the Hugo project (similar to Jekyll) just compile for all os/arch combos and upload to github from a single machine.
https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases
IMO static linking benefits software on a user's host machine more than it does a networked server, which is typically highly controlled, orchestrated and repeatable, or containerized these days.
Disclaimer: In the Go ecosystem's current state writing applications with GUI elements is not so simple. But, I typically only write command line utilities/apps. So I can't really say much to that end.
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Side project:
A blog: http://trainerminds.com/
The engine of the blog is this one:
https://github.com/spf13/hugo
It's a static blog engine, it's like jekyll.
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