Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites with tools familiar to Laravel developers. It combines Laravel’s Blade templating language with Markdown content and a PHP-based configuration system.
It works well for blogs, documentation, marketing sites and other projects where a full dynamic backend would add unnecessary complexity. Sites are assembled locally and the resulting static files can be deployed to conventional web hosting or static hosting services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses Laravel Blade for templates, layouts and reusable partials.
- Supports Markdown for articles, documentation and other content-heavy pages.
- Site-wide variables can be defined in PHP configuration files and accessed from templates.
- Page-specific metadata can be supplied alongside content.
- Collections group related content such as posts, people, products or projects.
- Collections can be sorted, filtered, mapped and paginated.
- Remote collections can populate sites with data fetched from external sources.
- Supports pretty URLs and custom error pages.
- Event listeners allow custom processing at different stages of the build.
- Built-in starter templates provide starting points for blogs and documentation sites.
- Vite integration handles CSS and JavaScript asset compilation when a frontend build step is required.
- Composer handles installation and PHP dependencies.
Website: jigsaw.tighten.com
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License: MIT License
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