Appearance
### Themes (Nope) Taxus does not have, nor will ever have, a theming system. Theming systems are heavy and by necessity overly opinionated. They also bring in added complexity as a common solution i...
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Authoring
### Write with Ease Author content using the CommonMark markdown standard, thanks to the [pulldown-cmark](https://github.com/pulldown-cmark/pulldown-cmark) crate. Intuitively build out the `content`...
Structure
## Template Power ### Sensible but Flexible Taxus sites are built with [Tera](https://keats.github.io/tera) templates. Sensible defaults are provided: `base.html`, `section.html`, and `page.html`. O...
Interactivity
### Interactivity Two Ways Taxus provides two options to make your static site interactive. Use them independently or together. | Layer | Technology | Best For | |-------|------------|----------| | ...
Home
## Static Site Generation for 2026 and beyond Building for the web has become unnecessarily difficult. Taxus is an opinionated take on making it easier. It takes in assets and markdown and outputs a ...
Blog
Here you will find the story of Taxus as well as various theoretical thoughts and musings.
Taxus Feature Focus: Search Island
Static sites have long had a search problem. The typical solutions all come with tradeoffs: Algolia costs money and sends queries to a third party, Lunr.js adds a heavy JavaScript dependency, and Goog...
Taxus Feature Focus: Hero Images
Static sites need great visuals. Today we're introducing hero image support in Taxus: drop an image next to your markdown, add one line of frontmatter, and get a fully responsive ` ` element w...
Taxus Feature Focus: Syntax Highlighting
Taxus is evolving into a *toolkit* for composing a static site generator. I started this project out with the notion it would be a competitor to [Zola](https://getzola.org) but as it evolved, given th...
Understanding Static Site Generators
### The Simple Idea Behind Static Sites At their core, static site generators solve a straightforward problem: how do you build a website without manually writing every HTML file by hand? Consider a...
Project Launch
### Ready, Set, Go! Welcome to the official launch of Taxus! I'm excited to introduce this new static site generator and share the journey that brought us here. This blog will serve as a space to doc...