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It's lightning fast, developed from the ground up in C++, and released for free under the MIT license, use it for any of your personal or commercial projects – just be sure to preserve copyright and license notices!

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  • Developed by

    Nicholas Ham
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  243 Stars
  •  21 Forks
  •  9 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 13, 2024 
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What is Nift?

It's lightning fast, developed from the ground up in C++, and released for free under the MIT license, use it for any of your personal or commercial projects – just be sure to preserve copyright and license notices!

Lightning Fast Nift is possibly the world's fastest website generator (evidence). Focus on development rather than waiting for your website to build.

Compact The source code for Nift is under 150kb in size and can be compiled in to an executable under 300kb in size.

Static and Dynamic Websites Nift can manage and generate not just static but also dynamic websites, with a whole range of hosting options.

Script Support Nift has support for pre/post build/serve scripts to integrate with cURL, databases, SASS, Grunt, GraphQL, Python Web Server, Live Server/Reload, etc..

Command-Line Integration Nift brings you the full power of the command line, with syntax in the template language to run scripts and input/inject the output of a script at any point while building webpages.

Git Integration Nift integrates seamlessly with Git to clone from and push to AWS Amplify Console, AWS CodeCommit, BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab, Netlify, surge.sh, ZEIT Now etc..

Framework Integration Nift integrates flawlessly with various Javascript frameworks eg. Grunt, Gulp, Vue, Node, React, etc. and PHP frameworks eg. Laravel, CakePHP, Phalcon, etc..

Language Agnostic You can use any language you want, eg. markdown, LATEX, html, xml, css, javascript, php, MySQL, etc..

Build Errors Nift will throw errors and tell you the exact file and line number where there is a problem.

Single Executable Nift compiles in to one executable file.

Intuitive Templating System Nift's templating system is intuitive while being easy to understand and remember.

Multithreading Support Nift will take advantage of all the computing power on your machine, whether you're running on a Raspberry Pi or a super computer, Nift has you covered.

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