Cactus is a simple but powerful static website generator using Python and the Django template system. Cactus also makes it easy to develop locally and deploy your site to S3 directly. It works great for company, portfolio, personal, support websites and blogs.
Cactus is based on the idea that most dynamic features on websites these days can be done using JavaScript while the actual site can stay static. Static websites are easy to host and typically very fast.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Asset fingerprinting.
- Asset pipeline
- Pretty URLs
- Native Mac filesystem events.
- Automatic nameserver configuration.
- Support for multiple deployment backends (Google Sites).
Website: github.com/eudicots/Cactus
Support:
Developer: Koen Bok and many contributors
License: Open source
Cactus is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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