Build a Static Site Generator in Python
Build a static site generator from scratch, similar to Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby in Python.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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What will you learn?
Ever wondered how SEO and performance-optimized static site generators like Hugo work? In this guided project you'll build your own from scratch using Python. You'll put a lot of your learnings from Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming to use in a tangible web project. This project isn't for the faint of heart, but it's well worth the effort. You'll come away with a deeper understanding of static content management.
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Teaches you organizational skills for your code. One of the harder courses here. Worth it
C Herdinator
Mexico
A great idea for a personal project. Building things from scratch might scare at first, but step by step everything is possible. This is a difficult (well, at least for me) and fun pet project, where you'll find less guides for every lesson and have to think for yourself more this time
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Russia
Felt like fighting a big boss in a video game, good exercise and worth revising even after finishing.
Bear TW
United Kingdom
It's difficult
Long Đoàn
Vietnam
This was a challenging course but so, SO satisfying at the end of it all.
Crackajack Mac
United States
great fun to follow and complete the course!
Mario Coloma
Copenhagen
It is well structured, but there are some big steps/challenges along the way that will take a while to solve
Mario Kodsi
Ingolstadt, Germany
Really challenging, but if you push through it, you will come out the other side a beautiful peacock!
Bradley Williams
United States
This is probably the hardest required Python project on the site. I say that as someone that started boot.dev already fluent in Python. However, it was the first project I ever did that I *really* had to think through what's required to parse a markdown file and generate HTML with it, walk through a file tree recursively, and general concepts that are probably closet to an AST.
Nazwadi
United States
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