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Nikola

Static site generator: in goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

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Nikola builds static websites from content written in reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython (Jupyter) Notebooks or HTML. It uses doit for incremental rebuilds, rebuilding only the pages that need rebuilding. The tool ships with blog features (comments, tags, categories, archives, RSS/Atom feeds), multilingual support for almost 40 languages, image galleries and code listings. It is extensible through Python plugins and themes written in Mako or Jinja2, and offers a CLI with commands for building, serving, deploying, importing and debugging.

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