Static site generators
The Verdict
Static site generators
Y ou can see that these generators have many capabilities despite being minimalistic. Don’t get caught up in learning them all at once – you’ll never finish your site that way! Migrating from another platform is already built-in, so if you are leaving a commercial offering, check for importers. Hugo, Jekyll and Pelican already have ready scripts for importing from the major providers. Also, keep in mind that they have importers between each other, making it a standard procedure to switch.
All these program suites have a modular design, so when you look through what they do, this becomes apparent and the reason why even more so. They all started using existing code to convert between document formats. Since one output format would be HTML, it just made sense to build an entire site with the code. These modules are what makes importing old content to your new site easy.