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Static Site Generator
Hwaro
A lightweight, blazingly fast static site generator written in Crystal. Markdown in, an optimized site out — it builds this very website you are reading.
Crystal
MIT
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Crystal
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i18n
Multilingual
MIT
License
Capabilities
Small footprint, full-featured
Hwaro processes Markdown with TOML, YAML or JSON front matter and Jinja2-compatible templates, then bundles a fast, SEO-ready site — no plugins required.
Jinja2 templating
Template inheritance, macros and custom shortcodes, powered by Crinja.
Rich Markdown
Task lists, footnotes, math, diagrams and emoji out of the box.
SEO built-in
Sitemaps, RSS/Atom feeds, OpenGraph, auto OG images and JSON-LD.
Client-side search
Fuse-powered search with CJK tokenization for Korean and beyond.
i18n & assets
Multilingual routing, responsive images, CSS/JS bundling and fingerprinting.
Quickstart
One command from Markdown to a deployable site
$ brew install hwaro
# build the site from content/
$ hwaro build
[*] 142 pages · 38 assets bundled
[*] Site built in 1.18s
# or live-reload while you write
$ hwaro serve --open
This very page was generated by Hwaro.