Changelog

A new static site generator baby is born. It’s highly inspired by Gatsby.js (React based) but built on top of Vue.js If Gatsby intrigues you, but React isn’t your thing… check out Gridsome. It has the same concept of a universal GraphQL for all of your data sources.

Bob Mitro, Owner of Publii: Unlike static-site generators that are often unwieldy and difficult to use, Publii provides an easy-to-understand UI much like server-based CMSs such as WordPress or Joomla!, where users can create posts and other site content, and style their site using a variety of built-in themes and options. I love static-site generators, my favorite being Jekyll. The performance and security benefits are pretty amazing. Still, I have to agree with Bob here, they’re not always easy to use for non-developers. Publii looks like a nice option for clients or those of us who prefer a nice UI.

This project is designed to be a fully-functional, static site implementation of a blog system that is mostly compatible with Ghost and is built on EmberJS with fully working out of the box SEO friendly output. It supports being hosted on AWS S3 or any other static site hosting solution. Check out the demo. It’s 100% static and hosted on S3. 🎉

Static site JAMStack generators are on the come-up and Gatsby looks super cool. This post is a bit heavy on the hype-side, but a good intro nonetheless if you want to check it out without, you know, checking it out.