Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites

by fs111 • 15 years ago

53 7 15 years ago

Compared to Jekyll (Hakyll's obvious namesake), it seems to take what is a remarkably simple system (ie. one that puts your focus mostly on the HTML, CSS and JS and does all the hard work for you), and replaces it with something that you need to spend time actually learning to be able to even compile.

While Jekyll offers convention over configuration, this seems to go the other way. For a static website I'd rather focus on the HTML and CSS than a DSL that compiles it in a certain way.

oconnor0• 15 years ago

Does it seem to offer functionality proportional to the cost spent learning the system?

jaspervdj• 15 years ago

While Jekyll offers convention over configuration, it is not that configurable at all. Hakyll is definitely harder to use, but more flexible as well. For example, it is possible to write a tool which mimics Jekyll, built upon Hakyll:

http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2011-06-22-hakyll-contrib-small-bl...

ivan_ah• 15 years ago

Very nice.

> Integration with pandoc gives us markdown and TeX, ...

... reStructuredText, textile, and HTML.

PANDOC is, like, the most powerful thing ever made: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

phren0logy• 15 years ago

I am using MiddleMan, but I have pandoc parse the markdown first then pass the HTML over to MiddleMan. Pandoc is a godsend for academic writing, although I'm also using MultiMarkDown for some of the files due to the way it handles tables.

The author of Pandoc has his own Haskell static site generator, although to me it lacks the elegance of Pandoc.

https://github.com/jgm/yst

bjornsteffanson• 15 years ago

I really like the ethos of Hakyll, and have tried using it in the past but couldn't wrap my head around it. I feel the tutorials would benefit from something more for someone who is also new to Haskell and Markdown, as well.

Adaptive• 15 years ago

Hakyll is an excellent and active project. I used it for the Solarized site and learned a lot about Haskell, though like many Haskell projects (xmonad) you can still get a lot out of it without being a real Haskell pro.

One neat trick I used was to scrub my pages using sed first (there's probably a better way to do this with just Haskell) so that I can use the exact same markdown and links on both github and my own server, and the images and download work on both:

https://github.com/altercation/ethanschoonover.com/blob/mast...

Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites

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