Palila

Palila is a minimal, hackable, dependency-free Python static site generator. There are hundreds of Jamstack static site generators. Palila was created to facilitate automated deployment of small websites on LAMP stack servers with PHP and Python.

How it works: Palila crawls a directory tree and whenever it finds index.md it generates index.html according to template.html containing mustache tags.

Features

• No dependencies - Runs on servers without access to pip
• Folder names are URLs - index.html is generated in folders containing index.md
• No routing - No need to engage PHP or .htaccess to route requests
• Simple development - Just markdown and Python (no Apache, PhP, or Docker)
• Automated deployment - A GitHub action requests deploy.php to git pull and python build.py to rebuild the site server-side.
• Easy customization - Syntax highlighting, table of contents, anchor headings, embedded YouTube videos, etc...

Quickstart

palila.py --root ./demo --template demo/style/template.html

About the Name

Pelican is a full-featured static site generator powered by Python. Compared to the pelican, the palila is quite small.