I Wanted a Simpler Static Site Generator, So I Created Neyx

I have used static site generators for quite a while.

Jekyll was one of the first ones that felt solid to me and the core idea still makes sense. You write some Markdown with a bit of front matter then a few layouts and after the build you end up with a site.

The trouble showed up once things got bigger. Adding posts and includes and plugins and custom code and image stuff and pagination just slowed everything down. Changing a template meant saving then waiting then refreshing and it got old fast when I was tweaking CSS or layouts. Hugo is quick and there are others like Eleventy or Astro that handle the speed side better yet that was not the only thing I wanted to fix.

I also wanted fewer dependencies so old projects would not break two years later when I opened them again. That is what...

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