Hwaro is a lightweight and fast static site generator written in Crystal. It transforms Markdown content with TOML, YAML, or JSON front matter using Jinja2-compatible templates.
The software provides parallel processing, incremental caching, asset optimisation, image processing, multilingual publishing, search indexing, and a development server with live reload. It can also import content from WordPress, Jekyll, and Hugo.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Processes Markdown with TOML, YAML, or JSON front matter.
- Supports Jinja2-compatible templates with inheritance, includes, and macros.
- Provides task lists, footnotes, definition lists, mathematical notation, Mermaid diagrams, and emoji.
- Includes built-in and custom shortcodes.
- Offers syntax highlighting and automatic table of contents generation.
- Supports drafts, scheduled posts, expiring content, aliases, and redirects.
- Performs parallel builds with incremental caching.
- Bundles, minifies, and fingerprints CSS and JavaScript assets.
- Generates sitemaps, robots.txt files, RSS and Atom feeds, and structured metadata.
- Supports taxonomies, pagination, content series, related posts, and breadcrumb navigation.
- Provides multilingual sites with language-specific feeds and search indexes.
- Resizes images and generates responsive images, placeholders, and Open Graph graphics.
- Includes Progressive Web App and AMP generation.
- Offers a development server with live reload and an error overlay.
- Generates deployment configuration for GitHub Pages, GitLab CI, Netlify, Vercel, and Cloudflare Pages.
- Imports content from WordPress, Jekyll, and Hugo.
- Includes link checking, configuration diagnostics, and front matter conversion.
Website: github.com/hahwul/hwaro
Support:
Developer: HAHWUL
License: MIT License
Hwaro is written in Crystal. Learn Crystal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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