Generator X - The State of Rust Static Site Generators

This talk will detail the different types of content management systems that are available. The features and challenges with using them. Also we look at the programming languages used to create them. Finally we see where Rust fits in this application space.

This talk was performed at the 14th London Rust User Group Meetup

Transcript

1. Mark Sta Ana @booyaa
2. GENERATOR X The State of Rust Static Site Generators
3. Introduction
4. CMS, SG, WTF?
5. CMS
6. Dynamic
7. + +
8. Pros • Live changes • Search • Tags and categories
9. Cons + +
12. Other 29% Drupal 5% Joomla 7% WordPress 59%
14. Static
15. Pros • Prebuilt • No overhead • Fast • Secure
16. Cons • Prebuilt
17. ?
19. GitHub Pages
25. Single binary
26. Fast
27. Safe
28. loljk
29. Criteria
30. Examples
32. Documentation
36. Ease of use
37. Extensibility
38. Themes
39. What I didn't test
40. Survey
44. Honourable mentions • Rust Doc • mdbook • Lightning • made-up
45. Shortlist
46. Strange https://bitbucket.org/Alex_PK/strange/
47. Strange Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme 0 3 1 1+1 0
48. Gazetta http://stebalien.com/projects/gazetta/
49. Gazetta Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme 0 4 1 0+1 0
50. Cobalt https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs
51. Cobalt Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme 1 3+1 4 1 0
52. Gutenberg https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg
53. Gutenberg Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme 0 3 1 2+1 0
55. statique
56. Summary
57. Documentation
58. Usability
59. Themes
60. FIN
61. References • WordPress 58% CMS Market Share https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/ web_technologies_of_the_year_2016 • Jekyll - 2 hours build time https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ 2016/08/using-a-static-site-generator-at-scale-lessons-learned/ • 5K posts in seconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CdiDYZ51a2o
62. Media (should not be hard to find) • https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/tree/master/static/img • https://wordpress.org/about/logos/
63. Scorecard Rust Static Site Generator Scorecard Examples /1 Documentation /4 (REPO/SITE/ QS/REF) Doc Bonus Ease of Use /4 (install, init, serve, watch) Extensibility / 3 (markup/ plugins/ syntax hilite) + 1 Bonus Ext Bonus Themes / 1 Tota l Strange 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 6 Gazetta 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 6 Cobalt 1 3 1 3 2 0 0 10 Gutenberg 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 7