Build a Static Site Generator in Python

Name: Build a Static Site Generator in Python [Full Course]
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Rating: 4.6 (662 reviews)
Author: Lane Wagner

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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28 Addicting

lessons

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of completion

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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.

Chapter List

Static Sites

Learn about what a static site is, and start building the functionality necessary to process and move static HTML and Markdown files.

Nodes

Build the core HTML generation logic that will power your static site generator. Use recursion and OOP to build an easily understandable and maintainable system.

Inline

Build the inline markdown parsing logic, and the logic to generate inline HTML elements.

Blocks

Handle entire blocks of markdown, and generate the HTML nodes that represent them.

Website

Put the entire static site generator together, and publish your first website.

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Quite challenging but all the more satisfying upon completion. Well worth the time spent. Can't reco...

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A lot of fun and ton of XP.

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A very fun and sometimes challenging but very rewarding project.

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Thomas Roth

Austria

So badass!

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David Rutherford

United States

Really an amazing project that you need to implement everything you have learned until now. make you...

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Alvin Noboa

Dominican Republic

tough but felt manageable

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Aoife Bee

Canada

It is a hardcore course, but you'll learn a lot

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As most other projects only good if you want to spend hours doing your own self-study for this speci...

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The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code

Avoid tutorial hell

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Yes! It's free to create an account and start learning. You'll get all the immersive and interactive features for free for a few chapters. After that, if you still haven't paid for a membership, you'll be in read-only (content only) mode.