Zola is a fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.
It uses the Tera template engine, which is similar to Jinja2, Django templates, Liquid, and Twig.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- No dependencies – provided as a single executable with Sass compilation, syntax highlighting, table of contents and many other features that traditionally require setting up a dev environment or adding some JavaScript libraries to your site.
- Fast to generate a site.
- Scalable – renders your whole site as static files, making it trivial to handle any kind of traffic you will throw at it at no cost without having to worry about managing a server or a database.
- Easy to use.
- Flexible.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Sass compilation.
- Assets co-location.
- Image processing.
- Template engine.
- Themes.
- Augmented Markdown – use shortcodes and internal links to make it easier to write your content.
- Link checker.
- Table of contents.
- Automatic header anchors.
- Aliases.
- Pagination.
- Custom taxonomies.
- Search.
- Data files.
- LiveReload.
- Nelify and Vercel support.
- Cloudfare Pages support.
- Breadcrumbs.
Website: www.getzola.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Vincent Prouillet and contributors
License: MIT License
Zola is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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