MImikae1·Sep 3, 2025Submission
Gojekyll – Jekyll Rewritten in Go
3 points · Open discussionosteele
gojekyll
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osteele / gojekyll
gojekyll
A fast Go implementation of the Jekyll blogging engine
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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8 sourcesToo bad it doesn't quite support dates in the dir paths.
I'd like to recommend a highly underappreciated single binary rewrite of Jekyll in Go:
https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
In Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendationI started with Jekyll, and tried out Hugo since there was all the hype.
I didn't had the same issues as OP, but Hugo docs are so confusing that I just gave up and switched back. Jekyll works OK for my simple needs, and still does.
For those interested, there was also a partial-Jekyll-Golang-port, https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
In Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)I think I was never able to keep Jekyll working for more than six months before it broke down beyond repair.
Today there's also gojekyll (which is a single binary).
https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
In Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generatorNo, plugins are not supported in any meaningful way. With Jekyll I can write "_plugins/foo.rb" and put any code in there to add new Liquid template tags, new features, change behaviour, and even monkey-patch hard-coded core Jekyll code.[1] I can't do this with GoJekyll, because Go doesn't really provide a good mechanism for this kind of thing.
What it does have is a bunch of optional features that are typically provided by plugins in Jekyll[2], but this is a very different meaning of "plugins" that Jekyll has.
[1]: Whether you should be doing this is a different issue, but I would argue that for a static website builder it's fine, especially since you can just lock the Jekyll version with little downsides, and Jekyll doesn't change that often in the first place.
[2]: A list of them: https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll/blob/main/docs/plugi
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Plugins are actually supported, but they obviously have to be reimplemented in go.
Gojekyll currently supports the github pages, sass, jemoji, sitemap, feed, redirect, seo tag and avatar plugins, among others, see https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll/blob/main/docs/plugins.m... for the full list.
In Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of JekyllGojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll
159 points · Open discussionMy “learn go” project was a Jekyll clone with fast build times https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
It uses liquid for templating, and emulates a few plugins.
It currently works on some sites, not others – YMMV.
In Why I do not like Hugo