Generator X - The State of Rust Static Site Generators

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Mark Sta Ana @booyaa

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GENERATOR X The State of Rust Static Site Generators

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Introduction

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CMS, SG, WTF?

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CMS

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Dynamic

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Pros • Live changes • Search • Tags and categories

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Other 29% Drupal 5% Joomla 7% WordPress 59%

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Static

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Pros • Prebuilt • No overhead • Fast • Secure

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Cons • Prebuilt

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GitHub Pages

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Single binary

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Fast

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Safe

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Criteria

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Examples

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Documentation

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Ease of use

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Extensibility

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Themes

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What I didn't test

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Survey

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

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Shortlist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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statique

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Summary

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Documentation

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Usability

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Themes

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FIN

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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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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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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