Mike Neumegen
2 March 2022
What’s old is new again. With modern tooling and the knowledge of better ways of implementing SSGs, the rebirth era sees reincarnations of several older SSGs with modern ideas. Bridgetown...
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Bryce Wray
25 February 2022
There’s plenty to be said for stuff that just works, and the Hugo static site generator (SSG) is a perfect exemplar of that well-worn descriptor. When you’re building a new...
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Ross Phillips
24 February 2022
We’ve recently changed the way you set global configuration within CloudCannon. (Any previous configuration will still work, though we do recommend updating.) Rather than relying on your SSG’s config files,...
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Mike Neumegen
23 February 2022
It’s 2019. Next.js/Nuxt.js are pushing the boundaries of what SSGs are capable of, and are surging in popularity. The ‘Let’s Recreate Rails’ era questions if we can take this paradigm...
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Mike Neumegen
16 February 2022
After a period of heavy, complex JavaScripts integrated into SSGs, the following period pulls back to simpler times. And what could be simpler than straight HTML templates with Markdown content?...
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Mike Neumegen
12 February 2022
As the Forestry CMS moves towards its sunset, many Hugo, 11ty, and Jekyll developers are looking for a new home for their Jamstack websites. CloudCannon is a Git-based CMS which...
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Liam Bigelow
11 February 2022
Bookshop — our open-source page-building toolkit — now supports Hugo, as well as Jekyll and Eleventy. If you missed our Bookshop launch post in October last year, here’s a quick recap: Bookshop...
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Mike Neumegen
10 February 2022
In the early 2010s — while Jekyll was being reinvented — web browsers were becoming ever more capable, spurring a proliferation of companies developing single-page applications. However, building single-page web applications...
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Mike Neumegen
2 February 2022
After years of recreating and iterating on Jekyll, the reinvention period sees a flurry of static site generators challenging some of Jekyll’s underlying foundations. We see SSGs doing new things...
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Mike Neumegen
26 January 2022
This is the second part of an ongoing series. If you’d like to read about the genesis of static site generators, see Part 1: The ‘Before Jekyll’ era. By 2008,...
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Mike Neumegen
15 January 2022
Static site generators (SSGs) have exploded in adoption over the past few years. What were once tools for developers to build their personal blogs are now something millions of...
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CloudCannon
18 October 2021
Static websites make a statement. They give your users a near instant content experience on both desktop and mobile, they are easy to build for developers, they are inherently secure,...
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