Shizuka is my static site generator. I built it because I wasn’t particularly happy with existing static site generators, and I thought it would be an interesting project to make my own. The source is on GitHub.

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 ~353ms 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.