Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Pelican: A Comparison of Static Site Generators
summary
Jekyll ships as the GitHub Pages engine so it works with GitHub Pages and gives fast, well-documented deployment and many community plugins, but it keeps defaults and often needs plugins for categories or advanced layouts and has Windows rough edges. Pelican runs on Python, exposes hundreds of settings for URL paths, themes and templates so it’s more configurable and theme‑friendly, but generating and hosting on GitHub requires extra build and push steps.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:27What even is a static site generator?
- 2:19Ok, so what makes a good SSG?
- 5:47What do other people think?
- 9:38Things that Jekyll does well
- 14:44Things that Pelican does well
- 17:09The Cons
- 20:43Things that neither do well
- 22:43The Conclusion
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