Cobalt
Static site generator written in Rust: fast, simple, and extensible site publishing.
Why consider Cobalt?
Cobalt is an open-source static site generator written in Rust by the Cobalt organization. Designed with speed and simplicity in mind, Cobalt parses Liquid templates and Markdown files into static HTML sites in milliseconds, featuring built-in syntax highlighting and JSON metadata support.
Learn Cobalt by building
Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.
In this guide2 sections
Overview of Cobalt
Cobalt compiles Markdown documents into static websites using Rust Liquid templates.
Quickstart
cargo install cobalt-bincobalt init my-blogcd my-blog && cobalt serveCobalt is licensed under the permissive MIT License.
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