Static Website Generators --- Which one?

I just use github.com/audreyr/complexity which does the job of simple html templating well enough. It has a few... weird... features though, like expanding things from "item.html" into "item/index.html" all the damn time unless you tell it not to. At least it's not horribly intertwined with blog structuring like most of the competition.

It's a feature not a bug.

Op here. Thanks I will check it out when I get home in a week.

Pico. Pico is fucking awesome. Plus you can template it super easy. I used to do webdev in the 2000s, stopped giving a shit, and I was just going to load templates on it and never edit them because USUALLY editing or creating templates makes me think of lots of better things to be doing.

But it's actually really great and I know eventually I'll be drinking coffee and writing a template that looks exactly how I want.

www.cantkill.me

(of course I believe the pinnacle of blog/article website design was steakandcheese.com circa 2000)

web.archive.org/web/20000621191126/http://www.steakandcheese.com:80/

er okay maybe Pico isn't a "static site generator" but it's fucking great for what you want to do

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I like Urubu

Urubu is probably for you, here's why:

jandecaluwe.com/blog/i-dont-like-blogs.html

tl;dr
it's actually more of a general-purpose static _website_ generator, not just a static _blog_ generator, which is what most of the so-called static website generators really are.

Emmet is a text editor plugin that expands abbreviations to HTML. It's essentially a collection of snippets. I don't think that's what OP is looking for.
Emmet has plugins for various text editors, not just vim. In fact they list their vim plugin as a 3rd party developed one that doesn't even support all it's features.

Thank you. Pico looks really good, but I'd rather avoid any need for php in this project.

How is grunt relevant to my nimble website with text?

After reading about Urbu it seems like something that can meet my needs. Simple and seems to do the job. Thank you.

Op.

github.com/BennyHallett/obelisk

Thank you. Op