Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet from Rustacean Station

Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet

54 minutes Posted Dec 19, 2019 at 11:00 pm.

] What’s a static site generator?

] How easy is it to build and edit a site?

] Why create a new static site generator?

] The Tera template engine and Vincent’s experience building it

] Creating filters and tests to use with Tera

] What’s a taxonomy?

] Mapping content to URLs

] The experience of being an open source maintainer

] Rust crates and features used by Zola

] How the Rust ecosystem ensured fast performance

] Is Rust ready for web applications?

] What applications are best suited to Rust now?

] Issues or things you wish existed in Rust?

] Helping out with Zola

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Vincent Prouillet talks about his experience building the Zola static site generator (formerly known as Gutenberg) and reflects on five years of working with Rust.

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References and Resources

Vincent Prouillet

Personal Site

@20100Prouillet

Zola

Zola Website

Zola Forum

Tools/Crates used by Zola

pulldown-cmark (Markdown)

syntec (Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions)

rayon (Parallel computation)

heaptrack (Memory Profiler)

Static Site Hosts

Github Pages

Netlify

Crates for Web Applications

jsonwebtoken

Bcrypt

Validator

Compiled Template Engines

askama

maud

horrowshow

Runtime Template Engines

Tera (Jinja2-like HTML template engine)

ramhorns

rust-mustache

Static Site Generators

Hugo

Jekyll

Pelican