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Zola

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Fast single-binary static site generator with Sass, feeds, and search

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Zola is a static site generator in a single Rust binary that turns Markdown, Tera templates, and Sass into blogs, docs, and landing pages with feeds and search built in.

Decisive facts

  • Single static binary with no dependencies
  • Tera templates with installable themes
  • Sass compilation built in
  • Markdown with footnotes, tables, and code highlighting
  • Tags and categories taxonomies
  • Multilingual site support
  • Atom and RSS feeds plus sitemap and search index
  • Live-reload development server
Content Managementruststatic-site-generatorsingle-binarymarkdowndocumentationblogging

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