built_in_seo
Sitemaps, feeds, OpenGraph, JSON-LD, and llms.txt. Social card images render at build time, in nineteen styles.
Fast by default.
Yours by design.
A static site generator built with Crystal. No themes, no lock-in. Your content, your structure, your speed.
1,000 pages. Under a second.
Median cold build on the open SSG benchmark, minimal workload: pure markdown to HTML.
The bar fills in real time: 443 ms, one full rebuild.
- minimal markdown to HTML 0.44s
- blog tags, pagination, feeds 0.59s
- heavy plus syntax highlighting 1.50s
Everything built in.
No plugins to hunt down. Enable a feature in config.toml and build.
blazing_fast
Parallel rendering, incremental builds, and a streaming mode for very large sites. Thousands of pages in seconds.
markdown_first
TOML front matter, footnotes, task lists, math, and Mermaid.
flexible_templates
Jinja2 templating with inheritance, filters, functions, and shortcodes. No theme lock-in: build your own.
taxonomies
Tags, categories, and custom taxonomies with automatic index pages and pagination.
extensible
Build hooks, asset pipeline, image processing, multilingual support, PWA, and AMP. All in one binary.
Start from a scaffold
Five complete starting points, one shared token system that adapts to light and dark on its own.
hwaro init my-site --scaffold docs
documentation with sidebar and search
hwaro init my-site --scaffold blog
posts, tags, and feeds
hwaro init my-site --scaffold book
chaptered long-form writing
hwaro init my-site --scaffold simple
landing pages and small sites
hwaro init my-site --scaffold bare
an empty, unopinionated start
Social cards, drawn at build time
Every page gets an Open Graph image without a browser or an external service. Auto OG Images covers all nineteen styles.
Built with Hwaro
Sites from the examples gallery, each one a real build.
