Minimal Static Blog Generator in Python

Simple static blog generator, written in Python, with the top Lighthouse scores.

Missing 'Best Practices' and 'SEO' due to server-side configuration.

Features

• Minimal website size (9 KB pretty, 2 KB minified)
• Simplicity
• No JavaScript
• Looks great good on desktop and mobile
• Very easy to modify styles (assets/blog.css)
• Simple HTML templating using Python's str.format(...)

Screenshots

Usage

1. Add posts to posts/
2. Run: python generate_static_blog.py
3. See results in public/blog/

Optional - Here's an easy way to deploy to a server (assuming you have npm installed):

1. Run: npx surge public/blog my-blog.surge.sh Note: You will need to change the sub-domain of the '*.surge.sh' URL

Improvement ideas

• Rather than a using a custom parser for the front matter, use pip install fronmatter
• More error catching (and better error messages)
• Potentially use extensions for the markdown library: https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/