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Static Site Generators

Jekyll Jekyll is a a static site generator which is available since 2009 and is build based on top of Ruby. Jekyll is also the engine behind GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages are public web pages for users, organizations, and repositories, that are freely hosted on GitHub’s  github.io  domain or on a custom domain name of your choice. The fact that Jekyll is powering GitHub Pages is also the reason why Jekyll is the most popular static site generator right now. Jekyll’s website can be found at  https://jekyllrb.com/ : PROs Jekyll works very well with GitHub Pages which makes it extremly easy to get your Jekyll site hosted. Jekyll is easy to learn and in general comes with a great simplicity in it’s core concepts. Jekyll has a huge community, so it’s easy to find help to any topic related to Jekyll. If you want to extend the standard functionality of Jekyll you can make use of a long list of available plugins. CONs Jekyll is based on Ruby. That means that you have to s