Publican
Lightweight JavaScript static site and blog generator
Publican is a fast, dependency-light static site generator for blogs and content sites built with modern JavaScript. It renders Markdown content with flexible templating and incremental builds for quick publishing.
Key features
- Markdown content
- Flexible templating
- Incremental builds
- Minimal dependencies
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Written in JavaScript
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
Trade-offs
- Young project
- Small theme selection
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