Generating static websites using Swift on the server

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A new static site generator called Toucan converts Markdown into HTML using Swift-Markdown and templates via Swift-Mustache (Hummingbird implementation), emits a single cross-platform binary with no runtime dependencies, and uses front matter/YAML for content types, authors, tags and clean URLs. Version 1.0 alpha is on GitHub, the tool is already used in production for several sites, and the build pipeline supports watch, local Hummingbird preview server, and SwiftPM installation.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:37What are static sites
3. 7:09Why choose static sites
4. 8:19Introducing Toan
5. 13:37Why build Toan
6. 15:11Demo Toan setup
7. 19:44Who needs Toan
8. 21:31Toan availability

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