BoringSSG – a boring static site generator

BoringSSG is an easy to use static site generator whose most prominent feature is that it's intentionally boring. It only uses widely deployed and well-known dependencies. It achieves this by only depending upon Perl libraries that are packaged by current Debian stable. BoringSSG runs anywhere perl does, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and macOS.

It's built to be simple and require a minimal amount of configuration and custom code to generate a functional site. With no configuration, BoringSSG turns a directory of markdown files, along with some templates, into a website.

For file formats that it doesn't support directly, you can configure BoringSSG to call external utilities, for example to compile SCSS (Sass) to CSS, or to minify JavaScript.

It's inspired by the simplicity of eleventy, but less flexible and with boring dependencies that you can get without pulling from a third party package registry.