Build a Static Site Generator in Python
Build a static site generator from scratch, similar to Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby in Python.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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30 Hours
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What will you learn?
Ever wondered how SEO and performance-optimized static site generators like Hugo work? In this guided project you'll build your own from scratch using Python. You'll put a lot of your learnings from Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming to use in a tangible web project. This project isn't for the faint of heart, but it's well worth the effort. You'll come away with a deeper understanding of static content management.
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This project really stretched my skills and forced me to truly adopt a systems thinking mindset. I really liked that we were required to write our own unit tests and were more autonomous in our implementations. Although, frustrating at times, I truly enjoyed the challenge and structure.
Kamari M.
United States
A great project from start to finish, well worth the sprint to finish and the extra-curricular of re-organizing and refactoring afterwards! I highly recommend taking this project on, even if you don't care about web-dev or web-hosting! I'm not a fan of front-end so I liked this project, as it showed off functionality and backed wizardry.
Curtis Allen Jester
Athens, GA
This was a fun project. It has it's difficulty spikes throughout the project, but nothing too difficult one can't solve. What I really like about this project is how I can use it to create additional websites.
Brittany Gates
United States
This was a VERY challenging course, but it is worth doing!
Ryan Kardoes
United States
A fun and challenging project! Really pushed my knowledge of Python and strengthened my grasp on it all around!
Tyler Shetrompf
United States
Superb course
angshuk nag
India
This course was a big challenge. You worked a lot with classes, objects, and recursion. It was fun to see everything come together and be able to deploy the site!
Francisco Zavala
Mexico City, Mexico
A thrill of a course. Definitely up there amongst the hardest, but undoubtedly just as rewarding! After all, it's a simple website built from scratch (and some hair pulling shhhh)
Mr Khanyile
South Africa
If you want to learn through this course don't look at the solution before , don't give in stay persistent. Work using pen and paper.
Gursimrat Kalra
India
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