Kiln is a documentation-site generator written in Swift.
You describe your site with a type-safe Swift configuration and Kiln turns a directory of Markdown into a fast, modern static website without needing YAML or a Python toolchain.
It is designed for project documentation sites, with support for multiple documentation versions, localisation, client-side search, theming, admonitions, SEO metadata, link checking, blogs, and static marketing sites.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Type-safe Swift configuration with a navigation result-builder DSL.
- Generate versioned documentation with a built-in version switcher.
- First-class localisation with fallback to the default language.
- Modern responsive default theme with light and dark colour schemes.
- Markdown support with tables, fenced code, admonitions, front matter, heading anchors, and table of contents.
- Client-side search index generated per language.
- Build blogs, documentation sites, and static marketing sites.
- SEO-ready output including social cards, sitemap, robots.txt, and link checking.
Website: github.com/brokenhandsio/kiln
Support:
Developer: Broken Hands
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| Swift Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| Publish | Static site generator built specifically for Swift developers |
| Saga | System of extendible readers, renderers, and writers, and supply your own metadata |
| Ignite | Build websites using Swift with expressive, SwiftUI-like syntax |
| Toucan | Markdown-based static site generator |
| Kiln | Turns Markdown into versioned and localised documentation websites |
| Roland | Compiles its templates using PHP and CommonMark |
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