flingern is a static art website generator

Features

Easy to use: write your whole website in Markdown with minimal config in YAML
Fire up the monitor and it will serve the website and automatically rebuild it on any change
Generates the website with an elegant theme
Automatic image conversion: converts photos into thumbnails and lower quality versions to save bandwidth
Theme flexibility: customize the theme as you wish

Getting Started

Install it through PIP (still not available):

pip install flingern

Create a new site with:

flingern new my-site

The build your:

flingern build my-site

You can also serve it, and enable the watchdog to rebuild on any change:

flingern serve my-site --watch

flingern uses a Nix development shell to build a reliable development shell:

nix develop

Then sync dependencies and run with uv:

uv sync
uv run main.py

Flingern is a nice neighborhood in Düsseldorf where I usually take walks and have coffee.