Cobalt is a static site generator.
By default, Cobalt mirrors your source file hierarchy in the destination, helping you get closer to a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get experience.
Cobalt is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Simple to use – quick to get started and can handle complex cases.
- Easy to use – aims to be no-hassle, from being easy to install, a workflow-centric command line, to a familiar template language.
- Fast.
- Pages
- Posts – posts can be stored in “draft” state.
- Frontmatter – all pages optionally support having some metadata associated with them.
- Variables – a variety of data is available as Liquid variables. This is useful for theming and easier maintenance. There are global variables, site variables, page variables, and collection variables.
- Permalink – supports a flexible way to build permalinks, allowing you to leverage various Liquid template variables. Permalinks refer to the relative URL for your pages.
- Layouts – templates that contain the common formatting for your pages.
- Assets – with default support for Sass.
- Data files – supports loading yaml, json, and toml.
- Support for syntax highlighting
- Add MathJax to pages.
Website: cobalt-org.github.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The Cobalt.rs Contributors
License: MIT License
Cobalt is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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