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Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby. Commonly used in conjunction with GitHub Pages & Octopres.
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LanguageRuby
LicenseMIT
Markup LanguagesHTML, Markdown
Template EngineLiquid
Pros
Pro GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
Supports Jekyll out of the box. See GitHub pages.
Pro Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog posts
Pro GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
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Cons
Con Slow as molasses
With anything larger than a few pages, Jekyll's build process slows to a crawl. There have been build times of 5 minutes plus on just a few 100 pages, even with the --incremental flag set.
Con No official Windows support
Jekyll is written in Ruby and therefore it is poorly supported on Windows. All the solutions of running Jekyll on Windows are maintained by community.
It seems to work on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10, though (has someone tried it?).
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Recommendations
Jekyll
Recommended 5 years ago
Jekyll is the best static site generator I know, which I found through github. My personal site at http://razetime.github.io is hosted on jekyll and runs very well. Jekyll is simple to use if you're going for a minimalistic layout and a smaller number of pages. However, for larger websites for magazines...
Pro
Various Markdown flavorsPro
Super-lightweight and lightning-fastPro
GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomainCon
Learning curvePro
FreeCon
No official Windows supportCon
Slow as molassesPro
Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog postsPro
Customisable with data and collectionsPro
Large, active and helpful communityPro
Code highlighting with pygmentsPro
Decent documentationPro
Excels at bloggingCon
Little Windows support