I am Ciro, and this is a bit of my experience.
For over a year I have been using jekyll for some projects where I develop websites and parts of static html system.
Jekyll was taking good care of me and I started to ask about a simplified structure, fast, easy to handle, extensive, where I would have complete control of how I want to develop my application.
In this way I spent my time searching and testing some of the static site generators:
All found in this great documentation Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
I did not succeed. Such frameworks work very well for the purpose defined "Static Site Generators".
And, with the internet (and its technologies) becoming more and more dynamic, with better and better functional resources, faster and more optimized, I realized that I could go my way, joining the excellent work in many people from my point of view.
Thus was born Static-Here
Scopes delimited together to a set of Gulp tasks.
Nunjucks - A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript.
You've been looking for a more sophisticated templating engine for JavaScript. Here it is.
Gulp 4.0 - Automate and enhance your workflow
Gulp is a toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow, so you can stop messing around and build something.
Plugins used:
About Gulp 4.0
Browsersync - Time-saving synchronised browser testing.
With each web page, device and browser, testing time grows exponentially. From live reloads to URL pushing, form replication to click mirroring, Browsersync cuts out repetitive manual tasks. It’s like an extra pair of hands. Customise an array of sync settings from the UI or command line to create a personalised test environment.
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