punch

> after a lot of experimenting I settled on 11ty at the time, but I really don't enjoy writing Liquid templates, and writing reusable components using Liquid felt very clumsy. I just wish it was much easier to use the JSX based templates with 11ty, but every step of the way feels like I'm working against the "proper" way to do things. Doesn't Eleventy support most of the common old-school templating languages? I once converted a site using Mustache from Punch [1] to Eleventy. Eleventy is great, and in some ways I prefer it to Hugo if build time isn't an issue. At least templates don't break, like most of the comments here say. I eventually redid the site from scratch (with a bit of vibecoding magic back when v0 got me into it) with Astro. [1] https://github.com/laktek/punch

I use punch for this -- it works very well for development, and sometimes can even be used in production as well. In any case, it is just mustache + json hashes. <https://github.com/laktek/punch>;

Here are mine. All of them are open source: - Punch - http://github.com/laktek/punch (my most popular open source project) - Punch Blog Boilerplate - https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog - Extract Values (JS) - https://github.com/laktek/extract-values - Distraction Free Writing for Vim - https://github.com/laktek/distraction-free-writing-vim - Go wrapper for Stack Exchange API - https://github.com/laktek/Stack-on-Go More than that, I enjoyed blogging a lot in last year - http://laktek.com/2012 8 out of those 24 posts, got featured in HN homepage. Those discussion threads helped me to learn more and raise my bar. Also, I made lot of new friends thanks to HN. Thanks for all the inspiration HN. Looking forward for a great 2013!

Easiest option would be to use GitHub pages - http://pages.github.com/ But if you prefer to have more control and availability, you can use S3. Punch makes publishing process to S3 really easy - https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Publishing-a-Site

You have the option of changing the template engine to any one you prefer - https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Adding-a-New-Template-E... For example, here's a handlebars plugin for Punch - https://github.com/laktek/handlebars

I host my blog at Amazon S3, not only it takes away the worry of high traffic, it almost cost nothing (I paid $1 last month for 8GB of transfers). I wrote about the setup sometime back - http://laktek.com/2011/11/17/why-and-how-i-revamped-my-blog While Jekyll is a nice fit for creating and maintaining a blog, it's an overkill for running other kinds of static sites. I felt there's a need for a simple and more flexible static site generator, so I wrote Punch (http://github.com/laktek/punch). These days, I'm working on a Punch based extension to generate blogs as well, which solves couple of pains I have with Jekyll (such as slow generation, non-existent error handling, lack of support for partials and rigidness in templating, etc.)

If you want to write LESS, without having to bother about compiling it manually, try Punch project - http://github.com/laktek/punch