[DOXIASITETOOLS-269] get insight into existing static site generators

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Site model, Site renderer, Skin model
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Herve Boutemy
• Created: 21/Oct/22 10:25
• Updated: 09/Feb/23 14:37

Description

Doxia Sitetools (with its skins) was created in 2004 for the maven-site-plugin static site generator: there was no other tool like that at that time.

Nowadays, there are many successful static site generators providing nice templating engines with many themes (aka skins): it would be nice if we could use experience from these generators, eventually even use some code.

Let's list interesting generators and see what updates we can do to Doxia Sitetools to be more user-friendly:

• GoHugo: https://gohugo.io/ (in Go, then it will only be for ideas...)
• JBake: https://jbake.org/ (in Java, then could even be used directly)

any other pointer or ideas welcome

Issue Links

• relates to: COMMONSSITE-165 [SKIN] Update Commons Skin Bootstrap