# Static Sites

[christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search](https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search) - "A JavaScript library to add search functionality to any Jekyll blog."

[Forestry](https://forestry.io/) - “A static CMS that commits”

[Lunr](https://lunrjs.com/) - "Designed to be small, yet full featured, Lunr enables you to provide a great search experience without the need for external, server-side, search services."

[Netlify CMS](https://www.netlifycms.org/) - “Open source content management for your Git workflow”

[Pingy](https://pin.gy/) - “All Your Sites In Your Menu Bar … Pingy gives web designers a simple and complete UI for creating, sharing, and deploying websites. … It includes everything you need to go from concept to prototype to deployment. And best of all, no command line required.”

[Pingy CLI](https://pin.gy/cli/) - “The Simple Frontend Build Tool … Pingy CLI works with Sass, Less, Stylus, Jade, Pug, Markdown, EJS, Bublé, LiveScript, Babel & Coffeescript with more coming soon.”

[unified](https://opencollective.com/unified) - "Building a bridge between formats"

## **Generators**

[Couscous](http://couscous.io/) - “Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.”

[Docsify](https://docsify.js.org/#/) - “A magical documentation site generator. Simple and lightweight (\~18kB gzipped). No statically built html files. Multiple themes.”

[GatsbyJS](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/)

* [Gatsby-image plugin](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-image/)
* [Features](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/features/)

[Middleman](https://middlemanapp.com/) - "Build static websites
 with an easy-to-use framework
. Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development."

[Metalsmith](http://www.metalsmith.io/) - “An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.”

[myles/awesome-static-generators](https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators) - “A curated list of static web site generators.”

[Sculpin](https://sculpin.io/) - "Sculpin is a **static site generator** written in **PHP**. It converts **Markdown files**, **Twig templates** and standard HTML into a **static HTML site** that can be **easily deployed**." [GitHub](https://github.com/sculpin/sculpin).

[StaticGen](https://www.staticgen.com/) - “A List of Static Site Generators for JAMstack Sites”

[Static Site Generators](https://staticsitegenerators.net/) - “The definitive listing of Static Site Generators — all 458 of them!”

## **Hosting & Deployment**

[b-long/awesome-static-hosting-and-cms](https://github.com/b-long/awesome-static-hosting-and-cms) - “A collection of awesome static hosting providers, content management systems, and curated articles.”

[Firebase Hosting](https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/) - “Firebase Hosting provides fast and secure hosting for your web app and your static and dynamic content.”

[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) - Free static website hosting. “Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more…”

[Surge](https://surge.sh/) - “Simple, single-command web publishing. Publish HTML, CSS, and JS for free, without leaving the command line.”

* [Integrating with CircleCI](https://surge.sh/help/integrating-with-circleci) #article - “Continuous Deployment services like CircleCI make it possible to run publish your project on Surge each time you push to a GitHub repository.”

## **Services & APIs**

[agarrharr/awesome-static-website-services](https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-static-website-services) - “A curated list of awesome static websites services”

[Formspree](https://formspree.io/) - "Connect your form to our endpoint and we’ll email you the submissions. No PHP, Javascript or sign up required — *perfect for static sites!"*

[Getform](https://getform.io/#) - “Easy form endpoints. Form backend platform for designers and developers”

[Open Source Image Charts](https://quickchart.io/?utm_source=hackernewsletter\&utm_medium=email\&utm_term=show_hn) - “Generate a Chart Image from URL. Create static charts for embedding in email, SMS, reports, and more.”

[Sheetsu](https://www.sheetsu.com/) - “Turn Google Spreadsheets into JSON API”


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