Dapper is a simple but powerful static website generator. Distributed as a Perl module, Dapper comes with a command-line application called dapper which you can use to create static websites.
Dapper makes it easy to develop locally and deploy your site to Amazon S3 directly. It works for corporate, portfolio, or personal websites and blogs.
This is free and open source software
Key Features
- Content is written in Markdown.
- Simple to learn.
- Fast – makes sites that can be deployed staticly and are blazingly fast.
- Layouts are developed using TT3 from the Template::Alloy templating engine.
- Portable – easy to move the site to a new host in the future without incurring unnecessary cost and complexity.
- Configuration files and attributes are encoded with YAML.
Website: markbenson.io/dapper
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Mark Benson
License: MIT License
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| Riji | Git based simple static site generator |
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| minerl | Blog-aware static site generator |
| Sitebrew | Converts Markdown content into HTML while preserving a directory structure |
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| PFT | Uses the library PFT to obtain an abstraction over the file system access |
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