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Build a Static Site Generator in Python

Build the kind of tool that turns Markdown into a website, then understand static site generators from the inside.

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

1
Static Sites
Learn about what a static site is, and start building the functionality necessary to process and move static HTML and Markdown files.
2
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.
3
Inline
Build the inline markdown parsing logic, and the logic to generate inline HTML elements.
4
Blocks
Handle entire blocks of markdown, and generate the HTML nodes that represent them.
5
Website
Put the entire static site generator together, and publish your first website.

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Paul

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It's starting to become more invested and harder, but that's a good thing because I feel like you are doing more yourself :)

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xqsme

Netherlands

Challenging but satisfying

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Mateusz Gancarczyk

Poland

Very difficult, will make or break most programmer having to build code mostly on their own. But that makes it all the more satisfying to finish!

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Daniel Kramer

USA

THIS IS THE BEST PROJECT YET!!! super!

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Lorenzo Piombini

New Jersey

Really cool project! A bit harder than the previous ones but it exercises a lot of the things learned so far.

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Sergio Augusto

Brazil

Very challenging is a first-time web developer but very useful. I used a lot of Boot's help, but the finished product is satisfying.

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Joseph Daley

United States

All this time I thought all websites were dynamic and a huge hurdle to overcome to make one, but no, this course got me over the line

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Markuss

Latvia

This is a fun and challenging project. This will really challenge your Data Structures and Algorithms that you covered in the previous course.

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