A lightweight, but highly extensible static site generator written in pure python
barely
barely is a lightweight, but highly extensible static site generator.
barely was built out of frustration with the readily available site generators, frameworks and CMS, which mostly fall into two categories: not providing crucial features; or providing such an overload of them that getting started with the system takes longer than just building the site by hand.
barely reduces static website development to its key parts, by automatically rendering jinja2 templates and Markdown content into HTML. A simple plugin interface allows for easy extensibility, and the built-in live web server makes on-the-fly development as comfortable as possible.
Since building performant and SEO-friendly websites is always important, barely comes bundled with a Google Lighthouse CLI option, letting you quickly generate reports about your sites health.
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