Gutenberg
Dev tools
static site generator
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
10 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 17 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 3 for, 12 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Single binary with Sass and highlighting built in avoids toolchain hassle
From 3 comments
I do not honestly understand the negative comments, including the "Hugo did that already" since the dev points to important differences such as SASS. I very much look forward to…
farhang on HNVery nice, that is one of the most annoying things about Jekyll. I know i'm in the minority of users here who is on Windows, but setting up a Ruby in environment is a pain. Nice…
djcollier on HNhugo has recently started using a go-based syntax highlighter that's built in, called chroma i believe (https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma), which is supposed to be much faster…
smorks on HN
Fast rebuilds (about 10k pages in 61s)
From 1 comment
I haven't really looked into performance that much yet but it is rendering one of my bench site of 10k pages in 61s on my 4 years old laptop. Gutenberg does load all posts in…
Keats on HN
Objections
Hugo already does this with themes and a large community
From 1 comment
Hugo is written in go and does exactly this. Has a pretty large community and themes already. http://themes.gohugo.io
sandGorgon on HN
Unclear what differentiates it from other generators on the homepage
From 2 comments
The homepage misses how its different/better than all the other solutions. Rust ftw?
leichtgewicht on HNThere's a lot of me-too software out there, and honestly I wish that developers would just be more candid about their goals. What is this really? A state site engine with no…
andrewmcwatters on HN
Name clashes with Project Gutenberg and WordPress Gutenberg editor
From 3 comments
My first impression was that this was related to Project Gutenberg; that might raise trademark issues.
dctoedt on HNI have a feeling the name will be drowned out with WordPress being in the same market and their new editor also being named Gutenberg
corobo on HNThis name is already an amazing typography library... http://matejlatin.github.io/Gutenberg/
johnsoct on HN
Requests
Deployment guides for GH Pages, Netlify, S3
From 1 comment
A couple small feature requests: 1) Can you add a guide to deploying on GH Pages, Netlify, S3, etc.? 2) A search feature, along with a theme/example showing how to integrate it
HugoBoss on HN
Search feature
From 1 comment
A couple small feature requests: 1) Can you add a guide to deploying on GH Pages, Netlify, S3, etc.? 2) A search feature, along with a theme/example showing how to integrate it
HugoBoss on HN
Homebrew or Chocolatey packages
From 1 comment
Good idea. Hopefully someone will package it for Brew/Chocolatey (is that what is used on Windows?) but it's a good stopgap solution.
Keats on HN
Questions
Why use this over Jekyll or Hugo
From 2 comments
Why should anyone use this over Jekyll or any of the numerous other static site generators?
clintonb on HNThere's a lot of me-too software out there, and honestly I wish that developers would just be more candid about their goals. What is this really? A state site engine with no…
andrewmcwatters on HN
How to migrate from Hugo
From 1 comment
I don't see a point right now, but just in case: how much of a hassle would it be to migrate my Hugo-based projects to Gutenberg, if it proves to be more useful somehow?
krick on HN
Alternatives named
Hugo
From 1 comment
Hugo is written in go and does exactly this. Has a pretty large community and themes already. http://themes.gohugo.io
sandGorgon on HN
Jekyll
From 1 comment
Just moved from Jekyll to Hugo and I'm planing to stay there. BTW it's nice to see more alternatives to Jekyll coming on the scene.
bojanvidanovic on HN
Middleman
From 1 comment
Vote for Middleman.
macandcheese on HN
Lektor
From 1 comment
You may be better served by Lektor: https://www.getlektor.com/
nkantar on HN
Gatsby
From 1 comment
Do you have an example of catalogue/journal that you would want to do? Gutenberg can do blogs but I originally built it for any kind of content: landing page, landing page +…
Keats on HN