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Simple static blog generator, written in Python, with the top Lighthouse scores.

Programming language: Python
Tags: Static Site Generator     Python     Blog    

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Minimal Static Blog Generator in Python

Simple static blog generator, written in Python, with the top Lighthouse scores.

[Lighthouse score](minimal--static-blog-generator--lighthouse-score.png "Minimal static blog generator Lighthouse scores")

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Features

  • Minimal website size (9 KB pretty, 2 KB minified)
  • Simplicity
  • No JavaScript
  • Looks great good on desktop and mobile
  • Very easy to modify styles (assets/blog.css)
  • Simple HTML templating using Python's str.format(...)

Screenshots

[Minimal blog home page](blog-home.png "Minimal static blog home page")

[Minimal blog post](blog-post.png "Minimal static blog post")

Usage

  1. Add posts to posts/
  2. Run: python generate_static_blog.py
  3. See results in public/blog/

Optional - Here's an easy way to deploy to a server (assuming you have npm installed):

  1. Run: npx surge public/blog my-blog.surge.sh Note: You will need to change the sub-domain of the '*.surge.sh' URL

Improvement ideas

  • Rather than a using a custom parser for the front matter, use pip install fronmatter
  • More error catching (and better error messages)
  • Potentially use extensions for the markdown library: https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/