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24 alternatives to Bearclaw – tiny static site generator with RSS

hey yall, I made bearclaw because I just wanted an unopinionated static site generator with no toolchain and fancy stuff going on; it'd be my pleasure to show it to you today and answer any questions you might have. If you do end up trying out bearclaw, you can use nginx or your favorite webserver. Earlier this week I made eclaire - a static site webserver with compression, caching, and automatic HTTPS through letsencrypt. https://github.com/donuts-are-good/eclaire

Bearclaw is a minimal static site generator designed for developers who want simplicity without complex tooling or dependencies. It generates static websites and includes RSS feed support, working with any standard… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bearclaw – tiny static site generator with RSS launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors.

    2021 · feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com · its alternatives →

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    Gatsby▲476

    Blazing fast static site generator for React

    2017 · gatsbyjs.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3GA

    Sitesauce converts your dynamic websites into static sites, so you can keep your existing workflow while enjoying all the benefits static sites provide.

    2020 · sitesauce.app · its alternatives →

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    Slides 6▲412

    Static website generator, create animated websites easily

    2022 · designmodo.com · its alternatives →

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    Blazing fast dead simple static site generator

    2020 · getblades.org · its alternatives →

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    Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator for Python coders - sunainapai/makesite

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I recently stripped out Django from my personal site and converted it to a static site, using `staticjinja`. I found myself writing a lot of custom code to get my site going because I wanted to use Jinja templating inside Markdown. Once I was done, I decided to strip out `staticjinja` in favour of my own site generator. And so Jinjabread was born!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Static▲166

    Creating static sites should be super easy, now it is!

    2023 · static.devdojo.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate static sites with code. Contribute to chr15m/motionless development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Jr. the static, static javascript site generator (you should see this) - xeoncross/jr

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    (spoiler: its XSLT) I've been working on a little demo for how to avoid copy-pasting header/footer boilerplate on a simple static webpage. My goal is to approximate the experience of Jekyll/Hugo but eliminate the need for a build step before publishing. This demo shows how to get basic templating features with XSL so you could write a blog post which looks like My Article some content hello hello Some properties which set this approach apart from other methods: - no build step (no need to setup Jekyll on the client or configure Github/Gitlab actions) - works on any webserver…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bedrock▲165

    A powerful static site generator

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    How this site is hosted: Jekyll build, S3 sync, CloudFront, free SSL, and pretty URLs — the deploy loop still running years later.

    2018 · josephecombs.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to sdegutis/immaculatalibrary.com development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Just run `marmite` on a folder full of markdown files and get a full website/blog running in seconds. "I'm a big user of other SSGs but it is frequently frustrating that it takes so much setup to get started. Just having a directory of markdown files and running a single command sounds really useful. — marmite user."

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast, secure websites deployed to the edge (260+ locations)

    2023 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →

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    This project started because I wanted to consume my RSS/Atoms feeds the same way I consume news on HN: a lightweight webpage with a minimalist user interface where I can comfortably browse interesting links. I didn't like existing solutions for feeds reader. Many of them seemed overly complex, most of them require a database and don't event support sqlite. For a simple feed reader, it felt overkill. What I wanted was an easy setup that didn't rely on external databases or configurations. My solution was to build a small CLI tool that print an HTML page from a list of feed URLs. I can…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A stupid simple static site generator for markdown - rysolv/markdown_ssg

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    imperative static site generator powered by React and browserify - fiatjaf/sitio

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    `pandoc-sitegen` uses pandoc and mustache templating to turn a bunch of markdown files into a minimalist site, while still allowing for things like an automatic list of blog posts. I was really frustrated with the complexity of most existing static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo -- it seemed like even a basic blog required an immense amount of configuration and provided tons of features I didn't need. I built this mostly for myself, but I'd love any feedback on it :)

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PicoSSG▲12

    Small static site generator, still does everything you need

    2025 · picossg.dev · its alternatives →

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