getzola/zola on Hacker News

…For a greenfield site where Jekyll/Liquid compatibility is not beneficial, Zola may be an option, https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by transpute · 2025-12-15 · in Liquid-rust: Liquid templating for Rust

…I think this coupled with Keystatic [1] could be a nifty little lightweight setup for most. [0] https://github.com/getzola/zola [1] https://keystatic.com/

comment by h4ch1 · 2025-09-03 · in Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

I write in Markdown and use Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) to convert for publishing via GitHub Pages.

comment by asicsp · 2025-03-05 · in Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?

…hate Hugo's templating language. I might switch away at some point in the future (perhaps to https://github.com/getzola/zola -- the templating is Jinja2-esque).

comment by elipsitz · 2025-02-13 · in Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

I use Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) - pretty fast and I was able to customize a few things as well.

comment by asicsp · 2024-11-11 · in MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by newman314 · 2024-10-14 · in Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo

Proper footnotes have now landed! https://github.com/getzola/zola/commit/6a2b890545398bb21cab5...

comment by dgroshev · 2024-08-03 · in Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

…going to hook up to it, it's easier in the end. - https://github.com/PataphysicalSociety/soupault - https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by tupolef · 2024-03-29 · in Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?

I think you're thinking about Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola But yes, if I were to recommend something, it'd be Zola given that there's just one executable that you need to run and there's absolutely no setup required.

comment by snarkyturtle · 2024-03-29 · in Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?

I've used Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) for a static project homepage a few years ago to showcase examples with a simple description and a wasm app embedded in the page, it worked perfectly for me and the docs was clear on how…

comment by Carbonhell · 2023-12-25 · in Ask HN: So, static website generators and hosting in 2023/24. What's out there?

…for pointing this out, though I unsure how to work around it without changing my setup. [^0]: https://github.com/getzola/zola/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#014...

comment by fuzzypixelz · 2023-07-10 · in Mistakes with Rust smart pointers: when Deref goes wrong

zola + free oracle tier for me https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by rootw0rm · 2023-07-09 · in It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom

https://github.com/piranha/gostatic & https://github.com/getzola/zola are two other single binary alternatives.

comment by mikae1 · 2023-02-26 · in Show HN: Bearclaw – tiny static site generator with RSS

I use Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) to generate static site from Markdown and host it via GitHub Pages.

comment by asicsp · 2022-12-29 · in Ask HN: Preferred Platform to Blog

…not written in javascript and you'll be fine. Commonly stated but not actually true. For example: https://github.com/getzola/zola/blob/master/Cargo.lock https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (scroll to the bottom of the README)

comment by root_axis · 2022-08-09 · in Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites

The latest Zola needs a newer glibc: https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/1713 > Currently, Cloudflare Pages only supports ZOLA_VERSION: <=0.14.0 in builds. https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep...

comment by jhvkjhk · 2022-08-04 · in Private, organization-owned repository FAQ

i’m using Zola static site generator for my website (after switching from Wordpress) https://github.com/getzola/zola https://mishushakov.gumroad.com/l/mish-zola if you need more than that for a static blog (like Gatsby/NextJS) i’d consider…

comment by ushakov · 2022-05-22 · in Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software

https://learnbyexample.github.io/ I'm using Zola SSG ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) and hosted on GitHub Pages. I write about Regular Expressions, CLI one-liners, Scripting Languages, Vim, self-publishing, etc.

comment by asicsp · 2022-04-07 · in Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://www.getzola.org/ https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by DerSaidin · 2022-03-23 · in Ask HN: For static HTML, what is your go to template?

https://hashnode.com/ is another option. Personally, I use a SSG ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) + GitHub pages.

comment by asicsp · 2021-11-06 · in Ask HN: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up a blog for a developer?

…I find markdown easier to work with and I don't know much about web development. So, I use Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) for my blog ( https://learnbyexample.github.io/ ). It is a static site generator, clone a theme you like…

comment by asicsp · 2021-09-18 · in Ask HN: Care to share your personal site?

…known options for the frontend part of the JAMstack that weren't mentioned in the original post: - https://github.com/getzola/zola - https://hexo.io/ - https://www.getblades.org/getting_started.html

comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-06-09 · in Static site generators to watch in 2021

…on my system (to be fair, I gave up easily instead of asking for help). When I came across Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ), I was immediately drawn by the single binary aspect.

comment by asicsp · 2021-06-08 · in Static site generators to watch in 2021

…using Zola. I was quite happy with it once I got past some of the quirks when dealing with URLs. https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by 22c · 2021-06-08 · in Static site generators to watch in 2021

I've made a few things: - Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ) a SSG that works like I wanted and had a template engine close to Jinja2. I was using Hugo at the time but can't stand Golang template engine (imagine my sadness recently…

comment by Keats · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

…[1], reworking the translations/internationalization system [2], and improving the README. [3] [1] https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/977 [2] https://zola.discourse.group/t/rfc-internationalization-syst... [3]…

comment by southerntofu · 2021-03-05 · in Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

Yep, internationalization in Zola is WIP: https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/1148

comment by buovjaga · 2020-10-31 · in KDE.org migrated to Hugo

…include dates -- to the point that they will not include the option of doing so in Zola [0]. [0]: https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/635#issuecomment-5245...

comment by japanuspus · 2020-10-30 · in KDE.org migrated to Hugo

…that I share very much. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180714043311/https://iotdarwin... [2] https://github.com/getzola/zola [3] https://github.com/getzola/after-dark

comment by DyslexicAtheist · 2020-10-30 · in KDE.org migrated to Hugo

For those who want to like Hugo, but can't stand the templating language: there's also Zola ( https://github.com/getzola/zola ), a superb static site generator, with built-in Sass compilation, written in Rust.

comment by vsupalov · 2020-10-03 · in An Honest Review of Gatsby

…know it was single binary). I moved my blog from Jekyll to Zola as I found a theme I liked. [0] https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by asicsp · 2020-10-02 · in Pelican static site generator 4.5

…multilingual sites and a bunch of great features compared to other static website generator[1]. [1] https://github.com/getzola/zola#comparisons-with-other-stati...

comment by melicerte · 2020-09-11 · in State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020

…is that I get a single binary (this is based on rust) and I don't have to fiddle with npm, etc. [0] https://github.com/getzola/zola [1] https://www.getzola.org/themes/

comment by asicsp · 2020-09-11 · in State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020

…markdown. Currently using a jekyll theme, but I'm planning to switch to static-site generator like https://github.com/getzola/zola 4. https://learnbyexample.github.io/

comment by asicsp · 2020-09-08 · in Ask HN: What Is Your Blog?

…Rust and since this is turning into a "suggest a static site generator" thread, I'll mention Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola , although I can't say how well it works for photo galleries.

comment by kibwen · 2020-07-22 · in Medium is not the home for your ideas

…You can check out many Zola examples here [0] and the source code for my website here [1]. [0]: https://github.com/getzola/zola/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md [1]: https://github.com/azah/personal-blog

comment by andrewzah · 2020-04-15 · in My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

…Things about stuff {#stuff} Hugo works that way by default, and I copied that syntax for Zola in https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/685 last year.

comment by chrismorgan · 2020-04-04 · in Things Markdown got wrong

…that are decently performant, like Hugo (Go) [1] or Zola (Rust) [2]. [1] https://gohugo.io/ [2] https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by the_duke · 2019-11-24 · in 100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site

…want "Hugo but written in Rust" or "Hugo but written in Javascript" — then, there's Zola (Rust): https://github.com/getzola/zola , and 11ty (Javascript): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy . (Or at least that's how I think about these two.)

comment by KajMagnus · 2019-11-23 · in Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?

…visitors to download needless mbs on desktop or mobile seems like a bad user experience to me. [1]: https://github.com/getzola/zola

comment by snake_case · 2019-09-27 · in Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

There's Zola, a bit like Hugo but written in Rust, https://github.com/getzola/zola , and, looking at the readme, a bit more features than Hugo, e.g. built in search (how does that work?).

comment by KajMagnus · 2019-08-27 · in Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform

…the changes whenever I git push. Source here: https://git.sr.ht/~andrewzah/personal-site/tree [0]: https://github.com/getzola/zola [1]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy [2]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/http.git

comment by munmaek · 2019-07-05 · in Run Your Own Website

I was thinking of another Gutenberg: https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg / https://getgutenberg.io It's a static site generator.

comment by ealhad · 2018-10-25 · in Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?

…but thinking like this often leads to inefficiencies in other applications as well. [0]: https://github.com/keats/gutenberg

comment by iptq · 2018-09-30 · in Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site

…6 megs [2] Hugo, written in Go, static binary, 6 megs [3] [1] https://hastysite.h3rald.com [2] https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg [3] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo Back in the days I used blosxom to create static pages (a tool older…

comment by mhd · 2018-09-27 · in Ask HN: Minimal static site builder?

…would love to take a peek at your static site generator, if there is such a difference :) Sure: https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg It is going to change name this week or next week though, gutenberg was not original enough :(

comment by Keats · 2018-09-10 · in Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

…they deploy their build image (ie all you need for your site to be deployed will be a file like https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/blob/a2b55a927981727ce00a... ) like Hugo does. My own site is a bit difference as I have a DO instance for…

comment by Keats · 2018-02-10 · in Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?

…fact that people are watching this thread to ask for comments on how to handle i18n on the RFC ( https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/pull/111 ) as this is the next big feature I want to add.

comment by Keats · 2017-10-19 · in Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable

Both are definitely on the TODO list, I created https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/issues/139 and https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/issues/140 to track them.

comment by Keats · 2017-10-19 · in Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable

It's on the repo https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/tree/master/docs/template...

comment by slig · 2017-10-19 · in Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable