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Generator X - The State of Rust Static Site Generators

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

Mark Sta Ana

July 19, 2017
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  1. Mark Sta Ana
    @booyaa

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  2. GENERATOR X
    The State of Rust Static Site Generators

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  3. Introduction

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  4. CMS, SG, WTF?

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  5. CMS

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  6. Dynamic

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  7. + +

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  8. Pros
    • Live changes
    • Search
    • Tags and categories

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  9. Cons
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  12. Other
    29%
    Drupal
    5%
    Joomla
    7%
    WordPress
    59%

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  14. Static

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  15. Pros
    • Prebuilt
    • No overhead
    • Fast
    • Secure

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  16. Cons
    • Prebuilt

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  17. ?

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  19. GitHub Pages

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  25. Single binary

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  26. Fast

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  27. Safe

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  28. loljk

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  29. Criteria

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  30. Examples

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  32. Documentation

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  36. Ease of use

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  37. Extensibility

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  38. Themes

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  39. What I didn't test

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  40. Survey

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  44. Honourable mentions
    • Rust Doc
    • mdbook
    • Lightning
    • made-up

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  45. Shortlist

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  46. Strange
    https://bitbucket.org/Alex_PK/strange/

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  47. Strange
    Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme
    0 3 1 1+1 0

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  48. Gazetta
    http://stebalien.com/projects/gazetta/

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  49. Gazetta
    Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme
    0 4 1 0+1 0

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  50. Cobalt
    https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs

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  51. Cobalt
    Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme
    1 3+1 4 1 0

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  52. Gutenberg
    https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg

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  53. Gutenberg
    Example Doc Ease of Use Extensibility Theme
    0 3 1 2+1 0

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  55. statique

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  56. Summary

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  57. Documentation

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  58. Usability

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  59. Themes

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  60. FIN

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  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

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  62. Media (should not be hard to find)
    • https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/tree/master/static/img
    • https://wordpress.org/about/logos/

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  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

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