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Franklin

Static site generator written in Julia

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Franklin is a simple, customizable static site generator written in Julia with built-in support for live evaluation of Julia code in pages. It is well suited to technical blogs and documentation sites.

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Key features

  • Julia code evaluation
  • Markdown extensions
  • Live preview server
  • Static output

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Active community (1.1k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Julia
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is Franklin secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Franklin's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Franklin replaces

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