What is Hakyll?
It provides you with the tools to create a simple or advanced static website using a Haskell DSL and formats such as markdown or RST.
Hakyll is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
Hakyll is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 410 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hakyll's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hakyll?
Companies
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hakyll.
Hakyll Integrations
WordPress, Golang, Markdown, Buddy, and GitLab Pages are some of the popular tools that integrate with Hakyll. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Hakyll.
Hakyll's Features
- Post body (i.e. excluding post metadata) is read
- Result is passed to an abbreviation substitution filter
- Result is passed to my custom Pandoc compiler
- Result is embedded into a post template with a so called “post context”
- Result is embedded into the page layout.
Hakyll Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hakyll?
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
Elm
Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.