Sayfa is a simple, extensible static site generator built in Elixir.
It uses convention over configuration and lets you bring your own content, theme, and configuration while Sayfa handles the site build.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Markdown content with syntax highlighting powered by MDEx.
- YAML front matter with typed fields and support for custom metadata.
- Built-in content types for articles, notes, projects, talks, and pages.
- Categories and tags with automatically generated archive pages.
- Pagination with a configurable page size.
- Collections API for filtering, sorting, grouping, and retrieving recent content.
- Three-layer template composition covering content, layouts, and base templates.
- Theme inheritance and EEx templates.
- Reusable block system with built-in components including headers, footers, tables of contents, tag clouds, breadcrumbs, and related content.
- Directory-based multilingual support with per-language URL prefixes.
- Pre-built UI translations and support for right-to-left languages.
- Atom feed and sitemap generation.
- SEO metadata including Open Graph tags and descriptions.
- Development server with file watching and hot reload.
- Draft preview mode.
- Incremental builds with caching.
- Extensible through custom blocks, content types, hooks, and themes.
- Does not require Node.js.
Website: github.com/furkanural/sayfa
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Developer: Furkan Ural
License: MIT License
Sayfa is written in Elixir. Learn Elixir with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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