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14041 :: Hunim, a small static site generator written in Nim

• WyattBlue (orginal) [2026-07-12T04:19:35+02:00] view original

  Hi everyone,

  I’d like to introduce hunim, a small, fast, and unopinionated static site generator written in Nim. Hunim turns Markdown into static websites using HTML templates and reusable components. I built it for people who want a straightforward tool without a large runtime or complicated theme system.

  Some of its current features include:

  • Markdown pages with frontmatter
  • HTML templates and parameterized, nestable components
  • NimScript components for generating content at build time
  • A development server with automatic reload
  • Incremental rebuilding of only the affected pages
  • Blogs with post listings, navigation, and RSS feeds
  • Build-time syntax highlighting
  • Draft pages, metadata, and sitemap generation
  • An interactive diagram showing the relationships between pages, templates, components, and scripts

  Getting started is intended to be simple:

  
  nimble install hunim
  Run

  
  hunim newsite mysite
  cd mysite
  hunim server
  Run

  The development site will be available on localhost. To make a production build, run:

  
  hunim
  Run

  The generated site is written to public/ and can be deployed to any static host.

  Hunim requires Nim 2.2 or newer and is available through Nimble.

  • Website and documentation: https://hunim.org
  • Source code: https://github.com/basswood-io/hunim

  I’d be glad to hear what the Nim community thinks, especially about the template/component model, the CLI, and which features would make hunim more useful for your own sites.

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2026-07-12T10:35:50+02:00] view original

  For this kind of template syntax, you could use nimja's lexer. https://github.com/enthus1ast/nimja/blob/master/src/nimja/lexer.nim

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