Vincent is the creator of Zola (Formerly Gutenburg), a Static Site Generator built with Rust and Tera, a Jinja2-like template engine.

If you create a site with Zola, Vincent would appreciate you adding your site to the EXAMPLES file in the repository.

You can also take a look at the source for this website which is currently built with Zola.

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

Other links

  • Forestry (WYSIWYG CMS for Static Sites)
  • Keyword Arguments RFC
  • kickstart (Scaffolding tool)

Timestamps

  • [00:00:19] What's a static site generator?
  • [00:03:12] How easy is it to build and edit a site?
  • [00:07:18] Why create a new static site generator?
  • [00:11:55] The Tera template engine and Vincent's experience building it
  • [00:17:13] Creating filters and tests to use with Tera
  • [00:23:49] What's a taxonomy?
  • [00:25:08] Mapping content to URLs
  • [00:30:13] The experience of being an open source maintainer
  • [00:33:17] Rust crates and features used by Zola
  • [00:36:17] How the Rust ecosystem ensured fast performance
  • [00:39:55] Is Rust ready for web applications?
  • [00:42:45] What applications are best suited to Rust now?
  • [00:46:10] Issues or things you wish existed in Rust?
  • [00:50:28] Helping out with Zola