Vincent is the creator of Zola (Formerly Gutenburg), a Static Site Generator built with Rust and Tera, a Jinja2-like template engine.

If you create a site with Zola, Vincent would appreciate you adding your site to the EXAMPLES file in the repository.

You can also take a look at the source for this website which is currently built with Zola.

Vincent Prouillet

• Personal Site
• @20100Prouillet

Zola

• Zola Website
• Zola Forum

Tools/Crates used by Zola

•  pulldown-cmark (Markdown)
•  syntec (Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions)
•  rayon (Parallel computation)
•  heaptrack (Memory Profiler)

Static Site Hosts

•  Github Pages
•  Netlify

Crates for Web Applications

•  jsonwebtoken
•  Bcrypt
•  Validator

Compiled Template Engines

•  askama
•  maud
•  horrowshow

Runtime Template Engines

•  Tera (Jinja2-like HTML template engine)
•  ramhorns
•  rust-mustache

Static Site Generators

•  Hugo
•  Jekyll
•  Pelican

Other links

•  Forestry (WYSIWYG CMS for Static Sites)
•  Keyword Arguments RFC
•  kickstart (Scaffolding tool)

Timestamps

•  [00:00:19] What's a static site generator?
•  [00:03:12] How easy is it to build and edit a site?
•  [00:07:18] Why create a new static site generator?
•  [00:11:55] The Tera template engine and Vincent's experience building it
•  [00:17:13] Creating filters and tests to use with Tera
•  [00:23:49] What's a taxonomy?
•  [00:25:08] Mapping content to URLs
•  [00:30:13] The experience of being an open source maintainer
•  [00:33:17] Rust crates and features used by Zola
•  [00:36:17] How the Rust ecosystem ensured fast performance
•  [00:39:55] Is Rust ready for web applications?
•  [00:42:45] What applications are best suited to Rust now?
•  [00:46:10] Issues or things you wish existed in Rust?
•  [00:50:28] Helping out with Zola