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StaticGen Landing Page

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StaticGen

StaticGen is a leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators.

You can find a more exhaustive list of Static Site Generators at staticgen.com. If you are interested in adapting your website to Static Site Generators or making a new one altogether, visit this page which talks about JAMstack, the greater movement behind Static Site Generators, and a new approach to web development that creates faster and more secure websites.

#Blogging #Developer Tools #CMS 4 social mentions
Ruby on Rails Landing Page
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Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Examples of websites powered by Jekyll are: Ruby on Rails, and Frame AI.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #Frameworks (Full Stack) 117 social mentions
React Landing Page
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React

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Pricing:
- Open Source
Examples of websites powered by GatsbyJS are: Airbnb's Engineering and Data Science website, Figma, ReactJS, Hopper.

#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #JavaScript Framework 775 social mentions
GitHub Pages Landing Page
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GitHub Pages

A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
Because no processing power is needed, you can host your website on free hosting providers like Netlify and GitHub Pages.

#Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions
Netlify Landing Page

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Netlify

Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket

Because no processing power is needed, you can host your website on free hosting providers like Netlify and GitHub Pages.

#Cloud Computing #CDN #Content Distribution 104 social mentions
Ghost Landing Page
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Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Monthly (100k views/month, 2 users)
Examples of websites powered by Hugo are: Bootstrap, Kubernetes, Ghost,and CoreUI.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 173 social mentions
Bootstrap Landing Page
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Bootstrap

Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and JS for popular UI components and interactions
Pricing:
- Open Source
Examples of websites powered by Hugo are: Bootstrap, Kubernetes, Ghost,and CoreUI.

#CSS Framework #Development Tools #Design Tools 326 social mentions
GatsbyJS Landing Page
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GatsbyJS

Blazing-fast static site generator for React
Pricing:
- Open Source
In-site navigation is also unbelievably fast. In fact, navigating from one page to another is almost instantaneous (Try it now! This website is powered by an SSG). This is because the SSG I use (GatsbyJS) prefetches the files and assets of other pages on the website so that by the time you want to go to another page, it has everything ready!

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 14 social mentions
Frame for Slack Landing Page

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Frame for Slack

Collaborate with your best customers

Examples of websites powered by Jekyll are: Ruby on Rails, and Frame AI.

#Office Suites #Word Processing #Disk Analyzer 1 social mentions
Figma Landing Page

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Figma

Team-based interface design, Figma lets you collaborate on designs in real time.

Examples of websites powered by GatsbyJS are: Airbnb's Engineering and Data Science website, Figma, ReactJS, Hopper.

#Design Tools #Prototyping #Design Collaboration 101 social mentions
DISQUS Landing Page
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DISQUS

Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- $10.0 / Monthly (Up to 50,000 total daily pageviews)
One of the many side-effects of not running on a server is that you don't get any services out of the box that require processing. That means comments, search, and most forms of contact forms will need third party services. A popular free third-party commenting service is Disqus.

#Social Networks #Project Management #Commenting Service 37 social mentions