Blades
Dev tools
static site generator
SHOW HN2020
146points
90comments
#413of 3,028 in 2020
Top 14%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Docs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast build speed and clean documentation
From 2 comments
Nice work, thank you for sharing! Great job on the 386 theme. Documentation is understandable and easy to dive into. Great design, and rather complete feature-set. TOML looks…
forgotmypw17 on HNThis is neat! Good work. Was any of this inspired by Zola? https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/ I’ve used Zola and love the build speed and power that…
cipherzero on HN
Standalone binary with no dependencies
From 1 comment
You can do exactly this with Blades. The binary has no dependencies.
marosgrego on HN
Objections
Does not yet split sitemaps into index files for large sites
From 1 comment
Blades currently doesn't break the sitemap, but it can easily be implemented. I see that 50k pages is a maximum for one sitemap file. Do you think it should break into separate…
marosgrego on HN
Requests
Sitemap splitting into index and multiple sitemaps
From 2 comments
I'm going to try this out at some point this week, but the one item that makes me pause: the sitemap. Hugo is fast, but it doesn't do incremental builds. Once you get to the…
chrsstrm on HNIMO the easiest implementation would always break into an index and sitemap(s) as needed. 49,999 URLs? 1 index and 1 sitemap. 50K+ URLs? 1 index and sitemaps as needed. This…
chrsstrm on HN
Comparisons with other Rust static site generators
From 1 comment
It would be great if every new static site generator had a page that has comparisons with the ones that came before...at least for the ones in the same language and same…
AnonC on HN
Backlinks support
From 1 comment
I wish for a static site generator with back links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aM3JzBJ6qo
hendry on HN
Questions
Where to download the binary
From 1 comment
Where do you download the binary from?
smusamashah on HN
Whether it was inspired by Zola
From 1 comment
This is neat! Good work. Was any of this inspired by Zola? https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/ I’ve used Zola and love the build speed and power that…
cipherzero on HN
Alternatives named
Hugo
From 2 comments
I'm going to try this out at some point this week, but the one item that makes me pause: the sitemap. Hugo is fast, but it doesn't do incremental builds. Once you get to the…
chrsstrm on HNHugo or any go program should fit that bill since that is one of the major selling points of go Hugo has a ton of prebuilt executables that you just have to extract and its in a…
thrwwayanswerq on HN
Zola
From 2 comments
This is neat! Good work. Was any of this inspired by Zola? https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/ I’ve used Zola and love the build speed and power that…
cipherzero on HNCheck out https://www.getzola.org. It's a single executable. It even does syntax highlighting (without using client-side javascript). I moved to it from Jekyll/Hugo, because I…
rudedogg on HN
Cobalt
From 2 comments
Cobalt https://cobalt-org.github.io
twarge on HNIt would be great if every new static site generator had a page that has comparisons with the ones that came before...at least for the ones in the same language and same…
AnonC on HN
Soupault
From 1 comment
Another static-binary static-site generator I've recently discovered is Soupalt[1]. Which adds OCaml to the list of languages for that kind of thing, with extensibility via Lua.…
mhd on HN