Static sites, without the ceremony.

Write your content in Markdown, and get a folder of plain files any web host can serve.

Get started 0.1.0 · MIT or Apache-2.0

Install it and make a site

brew install statac-ssg/statac/statac
statac new my-site
cd my-site
statac serve
Serving `.statac/serve` at http://localhost:3000/

no config file to write! *

* Unless you want to, of course. If you don’t use Homebrew, Installing has a one-line install for Linux and one for Windows, and a package for every machine.

When something is wrong, it says where

warning  Broken link: nothing is published at `/about-us/`
  content/posts/post-1.md, line 5
   5 │ Read more [about us](/about-us/).
     │                      ^^^^^^^^^^
  Did you mean `/about/`?
  More: https://statac.dev/e/broken-link/

Statac shows the file, the line and the exact text, and suggests a fix if it has a good one. The More: link opens a page that explains that kind of problem. statac explain broken-link shows the same explanation in the terminal.

What you get

Broken links caught Statac checks every link within your site before anything is published, including the heading it points to.
Photographs handled Write an ordinary Markdown picture. Readers get it in several sizes, as AVIF with a JPEG fallback.
Sharing cards After statac new --cards, Statac draws a link preview for every page, from a layout you set.
Yours, kept up to date Every template is a file in your site. statac new --update replaces only the ones you haven’t changed.
Bring your site with you statac import brings a Hugo, Jekyll, Zola or Eleventy site across, and lists anything it couldn’t bring. See Arriving from another tool.
One program Sass, coloured code, feeds and a sitemap are built in. There are no plugins to hunt down, and nothing else to install.

And the rest

Tags and series, several languages, webmentions, a preview that reloads as you save, no JavaScript unless you add it, and nothing published unless the whole build succeeds.

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Licence

Statac is licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your choice. THIRD-PARTY.md, in every package and in the repository, lists the work by others that Statac includes, and the licence each is under.

statac new --cards writes two fonts for sharing cards, Noto Sans and Noto Emoji. They are under the SIL Open Font License, and statac new --cards writes the licence text beside them.