Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Write posts in Markdown (or other markup languages) and Hexo generates static files with a beautiful theme in seconds.
Hexo is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Blazing fast generating. Hundreds of files take only seconds to build.
- Support for GitHub Flavored Markdown and most Octopress plugins.
- One-command deploy to GitHub Pages, Heroku, etc. You only need one command to deploy your site to GitHub Pages, Heroku or other platforms.
- Powerful API for limitless extensibility.
- Features powerful APIs for limitless extensibility. Various plugins are available to support most template engines (EJS, Pug, Nunjucks, and many others). Easily integrate with existing NPM packages (Babel, PostCSS, Less/Sass, etc). There are hundreds of themes & plugins.
Website: hexo.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Tommy Chen
License: MIT License
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