Sherwood

A small, opinionated static site generator written in Rust. Markdown (and more) in, a clean static site out — with pretty URLs, live-reload, and a library API you can build your own site on.

This very site is built with Sherwood, using Sherwood as a library. If the build were awkward, you’d be reading about it here.

Why Sherwood

• Dual delivery. Use the sherwood binary for zero-config builds, or depend on the crate and bring your own templates.
• Pretty URLs. Every page is written as <dir>/index.html, so it serves at a clean trailing-slash URL.
• Pluggable parsers. Markdown and plain text ship built in; add your own content format by implementing one trait.
• Live reload. sherwood serve watches your content and refreshes the browser on save.

Get going

cargo install sherwood
sherwood build      # content/ -> _site/
sherwood serve      # dev server at http://127.0.0.1:4000

Head to Getting Started for the full tour, or the Guide to build on the library.