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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 you'll learn in this Python course

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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It kidna comes together at the end as magic. It would be better to take a fCC approach and iterate showing the changes on the local web server.

(3/5)
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Shane Boyce

United States

This course was WAY thicker than I expected it to be. Stillwrapping my head around everything. If you don't ask Boots anything, expect this to take WAY longer than expected. Great Course nonetheless.

(5/5)
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Hair SandwichTV

'Merca

After about a week I finally finished it. Definitely a really good course that builds on the previous ones

(5/5)
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James Gillis

United States

This was a challenging and fun course! I learned a lot about how file parsing works and it was really cool to see code I wrote turn markdown into a website.

(5/5)
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Chase Kelly

Cedar City, Utah

Genuinely easy to understand

(5/5)
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Tegar Wijaya Kusuma

Indonesia

damm took time lol

(5/5)
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Nicolas Abraham

Chile

a reaally chalenging course but you gonna learn a lot

(4/5)
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Vincent EK

France

A phenomenal course to understand a lot of interesting concepts. Plus the end result is super beautiful, gotta admit!

(5/5)
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Saksham Malhotra

Ottawa, Canada

VERY GOOD BASIC AND LIKED IT AT START.. BUT NEAR THE END IT GET VERY TOUGH.. VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOING ON. AND CONNECTION BETWEEN FILE.

(5/5)
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AYUSH PANKAJ

India

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