Franklin is a simple, customisable static site generator oriented towards technical blogging and light, fast-loading pages.
It’s billed as simple, customisable, fast, maths with KaTeX, code evaluation, optional pre-rendering, in Julia.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Augmented markdown allowing definition of LaTeX-like commands – supports most of Common Mark with some useful extensions. Use standard markdown with the possibility to use LaTeX-style commands and generating functions written in Julia.
- Easy HTML templating to define or adapt a given layout.
- Easy inclusion of user-defined div-blocks – style your content quickly and easily with custom divs, make everything reproducible and maintainable with commands.
- Maths rendered via KaTeX, code via highlight.js both can be pre-rendered.
- Can live-evaluate Julia code blocks – makes it easy to insert code and the result of running the code; Julia code can be evaluated on the fly.
- Live preview of modifications.
- Simple optimisation step to compress and pre-render the website:
- Compression of HTML and CSS of the generated pages.
- Optional pre-rendering of KaTeX and highlighted code blocks to remove javascript dependency.
- Simple publication step to deploy the website.
- Straightforward integration with Literate.jl – works seamlessly with Literate to offer a convenient way to write and maintain tutorials.
- Custom RSS generation.
- Flexible and extensible.
Website: franklinjl.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Thibaut Lienart
License: MIT License
Franklin is written in Julia. Learn Julia with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Julia Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| Franklin | Oriented towards technical blogging and light, fast-loading pages |
| StaticWebPages | Black-box generator for static websites |
| PlutoPages | Static site generator built around Julia and Pluto notebooks |
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