Shizuka is my static site generator. I built it because I wasn’t paticularly happy with existing static site generators, and I thought it would be an interesting project to make my own.
This site itself is generated using Shizuka. You can see the source code here.
Features
I intentionally kept the feature set minimal, but by design you can implement lots of advanced features on top of it, just by writing your own templates.
Currently it supports:
- Markdown, with optional extra features.
- A page query system.
- Git-backed page metadata.
- RSS and sitemap generation.
- Automatic
_headers and _redirects generation. - A scaffolding system for creating sites from templates.
- A hot-reloading dev server.
It also supports caching, and a smart artefact build system, so rebuild times are relatively fast even for large sites. (This site builds in ~150ms on my machine)
The query system is a small in-memory SQL interpreter that I wrote, that uses go structs to represent database rows. This allows for relatively complex page behaviour, without hardcoding any defaults. You can see the project here.