Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet

Software Sessions

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