

Jekyll
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Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Features
Highlights All activities
Jekyll News & Activities
Recent News
- Paul published news article about Jekyll
Recent activities
Sandeep-Kumar added Jekyll as alternative to Radius CMS
Xen Master added Jekyll as alternative to Blazor Static and Static Shock- mqdlou liked Jekyll
Anshul Sojatia added Jekyll as alternative to TailStatic- thesupportdiva added Jekyll as alternative to GiftGiving.fun
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Master List of all Apps and Software I use for both work and personal life.
Top 10 open source CMS for building a website
For quite some years now, Content Management Systems (CMS) have been on the rise and are growing at a fast pace. Surrounded by very active open source communities or developed by large tech companies, CMS are increasingly used by developers, web agencies and IT companies to improve productivity and simplify the process of developing complex websites. It's also a way to collaborate effectively with your team, take advantage of the community's many resources, helpers, and extensions and give your client access to an advanced administrative interface that is already ready to go.
But in this great environment of content management systems, there are multiple solutions: free, open source, paid, with or without databases, with more or less features ... and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate and choose the right tool for your website project showcase, blog, e-commerce website ...
In this list, I'll only focus on open source solutions because otherwise there would be too many choices but I'll also talk about paid solutions in another list.
So here's a selection of ten content management systems that I think are incredibly powerful and very used nowadays.
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My favorite web development tools
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HTML/CSS Frameworks
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JAMSTACK : Static Web pages generators
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Comments and Reviews
You can use github pages to serve up static HTML, CSS, and JS
There's a number of static blog site generators like
Jekyll is the only one directly supported by github for regenerating content with ruby / gem packages, which is done server-side. Everything else (Hugo, Hexo) you have to install your own dependecies locally and serve up the HTML / CSS /JS into github pages yourself
So it makes for a very lightweight and potentially feature-rich blog page all run through github, and very easy to use without much work once everythings setup
Strongly suggest you use
and
[Edited by Kagerjay, June 21]
Jekyll requires the following: Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher RubyGems GCC and Make