Open source static site generators, built and served

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

What the test found: Hugo v0.167.0-DEV installed, all packages compile and pass tests, the binary produces a correct version string and successfully scaffolds and builds a static site. 53 minutes.

A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.

What the test found: Hexo v8.1.2 compiles, its CLI answers help and version, and all 1292 tests pass under Node v22.12.0 with a single assertion fix for color-free environments. 18 minutes.

Project documentation with Markdown.

What the test found: mkdocs installed in venv, all 725 unit tests pass, mkdocs build produces a valid HTML site, and mkdocs serve responds with HTTP 200. 4 minutes.

A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

What the test found: Eleventy 4.0.0-alpha.10 installed on Node 22.15.0, all 1439 ava tests and 7 node tests pass, CLI builds sites correctly. 20 minutes.

A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

What the test found: pnpm install completes with no errors; all 119 test suites pass (1495/2799 tests, 1304 skipped as expected); decap-cms-core builds both ESM (126 files) and production UMD (1.26 MiB) bundles successfully; decap-cms-lib-util ESM build (20 files) succeeds. 18 minutes.

Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.

What the test found: All 7 workspace packages build successfully; 156 tests pass across 4 testable packages with 0 failures; all snapshot regressions and memory-limit issues fixed. 16 minutes.

🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites

What the test found: Quartz v5.0.0 builds the static site, runs the dev server on port 8080, serves content with HTTP 200, and passes all 163 tests. 4 minutes.

An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for Node.js

What the test found: Metalsmith installs, its test suite passes 157/158, the programmatic API and CLI both build projects from source to destination without error. 3 minutes.

Hand-crafted frontend development

What the test found: Middleman 4.6.3 installs and loads successfully. RSpec suite passes all 67 examples. Cucumber suite passes 361/394 scenarios (3100/3105 steps). The 33 cucumber failures are consistent environmental issues where deleted temp directories cause bundler getcwd to fail, not Middleman bugs. 38 minutes.

A modern static site generator by the Material for MkDocs team

What the test found: zensical is installed and functional: the CLI responds to --help and --version, 'zensical new' creates a bootstrap project, 'zensical build' generates a complete static site in site/ with valid HTML/CSS/JS, 'zensical serve' hosts the site on an HTTP server returning 200, and 1271 of 1307 unit tests pass. 22 minutes.

(Replaces Next.js/Nuxt) 🔨 Build mission-critical applications with stability and development freedom.

What the test found: All 207 unit tests pass, all 12 vitest e2e tests pass, all 20 type-check suites pass, the react-minimal example builds and its preview server returns HTTP 200. 12 minutes.

👻 Zero-configuration framework-agnostic static prerendering for SPAs

What the test found: npm install succeeds, both test suites pass (defaultOptions.test.js + run.test.js, 52 passed, 2 skipped), and the binary run.js starts but fails with ENOENT when no build directory exists, expected for a postbuild tool. 9 minutes.

The simplest CMS you'll ever need. Manage content and media right in your GitHub repository.

What the test found: Pages CMS 2.1.8 builds and runs in both dev and production modes on localhost:3000 with PostgreSQL 16, returning HTTP 200 on all tested routes and a valid JSON version response from /api/app/version. 13 minutes.

The fullstack meta-framework for Angular. Powered by Vite and Nitro

What the test found: All 21 projects build successfully, all 19 project test suites pass, and the streaming-app server binary starts and serves on the configured port. 85 minutes.

Leading Git-based headless CMS. Successor to Netlify/Decap CMS. Modern UX, first-class i18n support, mobile support + numerous improvements...

What the test found: Sveltia CMS v0.221.0 installs via pnpm, builds IIFE + ESM bundles, and passes all 10591 unit tests and 1348 component tests under Node v26.10.0. 26 minutes.

A static website and blog generator

What the test found: Nikola v8.3.3 installed in a venv; `nikola --version` prints version; all 516 tests pass; `nikola init -q` creates a site and `nikola build` generates it with all tasks (sitemap, galleries, taxonomies, bundles, robots) succeeding. 2 minutes.

🦀 A fast Rsbuild-based static site generator.

What the test found: Rspress monorepo with Node 24.13.0 and pnpm 11.27.0 builds all 13 packages and passes all 432 unit tests (8 .tsx-themed test files no longer fail). 33 minutes.

🔥🪰 Static site generator for Deno

What the test found: Lume static site generator is fully functional: test suite passes (228/228), CLI builds sites from Vento templates to HTML, and the serve/proxy infrastructure is available. 4 minutes.

A powerful web publishing system

What the test found: Nanoc 4.14.8 loads and its core test suite (59 tests across base/ and orig_cli/) passes with 0 failures and 0 errors after installing Ruby 3.2 via extracted Ubuntu debs, setting up dev headers and linker symlinks, providing a libyaml shared library, and creating an assert shim for the rbtree native extension. 44 minutes.

Hugoplate is a free starter template built with Hugo and Tailwind CSS v4.0 that will save you hours of work.

What the test found: The Hugoplate Hugo + Tailwind CSS v4 boilerplate builds 90 pages across 8+ routes and serves static HTML via http.server on all endpoints. 6 minutes.

Static site generator written in Rust

What the test found: cobalt v0.20.4 builds with cargo, passes its full test suite, and responds to --help listing 8 subcommands (init, new, rename, publish, build, clean, serve, debug). 2 minutes.

A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby

What the test found: Bridgetown 2.2.2 monorepo builds and passes its full test suite (bridgetown-core: 1000 tests, bridgetown-foundation: 41 tests, bridgetown-builder: 39 tests, bridgetown-routes: 13 tests, all 0 failures and 0 errors) with Ruby 3.3.11 built from source, using locally-built zlib and libyaml libraries. 16 minutes.

The lektor static file content management system

What the test found: Lektor 0.1.dev1+g9ebd5dcba is installed and its Python test suite passes completely. The CLI, builder, and dev server all work. The admin front-end JS builds. One JS test fails only because the container's Node 18 is below the jsdom@29 requirement. 11 minutes.

Optimizes static websites for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.

What the test found: jampack v0.34.1 builds, runs, and optimizes static websites: successfully transforms PNG->WebP embed, compresses JPG, minifies HTML and CSS, and prints a summary table. 3 minutes.

A static site generator for data apps, dashboards, reports, and more. Observable Framework combines JavaScript on the front-end for interactive graphics with...

What the test found: Observable Framework v1.13.4 builds, CLI prints version/help, preview server serves HTTP 200, 838/840 tests pass (2 pre-existing env issues). 16 minutes.

🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

What the test found: Starlight builds and all 631 unit tests pass; the docs site builds 629 pages and the dev server serves HTTP 200 with full HTML content. 4 minutes.

📖 Static Site Generator for component library development

What the test found: Dependencies installed, father TS build compiles 70 files to dist/, Rust WASM plugin crate built, all 139 tests pass, and an end-to-end build of the normal example produces a valid docs-dist with HTML output. 16 minutes.

GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages 🚀 Deploy static files and publish your site easily. Static-Site-Generators-friendly.

What the test found: The actions-gh-pages GitHub Action repository builds successfully with ncc/esbuild, passes all 53 Jest tests with mocked git operations, and passes TypeScript strict checks and ESLint linting. 3 minutes.

Front Matter is a CMS running straight in Visual Studio Code. Can be used with static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more...

What the test found: npm install succeeded, all 3 webpack bundles build successfully (extension.js 1217 KB, dashboard.main.js 8.5 MB, panel.main.js 10 MB), npm pack creates valid 1.2 MB .tgz (713 files), tsc reports 0 errors in src/, but the VS Code extension cannot be launched without the VS Code runtime which is not available in this... 8 minutes.