Nikola

In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

Why Static Websites?

Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in. You can read more about this in the Nikola Handbook

What Can Nikola Do?

It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

  • Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc.
  • Themable
  • Fast builds, thanks to doit
  • Flexible, extensible via the dozens of available plugins
  • Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
  • reStructuredText or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
  • Easy image galleries (just drop files in a folder!)
  • Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
  • Multilingual sites, translated to 50 languages.
  • Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
  • Python 3.5+ compatible.

Nikola Architecture

VDSS

Installation Instructions

Assuming you have pip installed:

pip install Nikola

For optional features:

pip install "Nikola[extras]"

For tests:

pip install "Nikola[extras,tests]"