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Publican

Lightweight JavaScript static site and blog generator

Blogging Platforms ★ 20 stars Easy setup MIT

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.

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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

Is Publican secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Publican'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.

Publican replaces

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