Fast CLI static site generator I've been working on

Pannonico is a static site generator I have been building around the way I actually want to work on static sites.

For many years I have been using Pannini static site builder from Zurb and their Foundation framework. I loved it for its simplicity and speed, and have been using it for more than 10 years until I finally decided to make a modern solution.

Pannonico is written in Go and works with HTML or Markdown, layouts, partials and structured data. Vite is a first class citizen in Pannonico and can remain part of the same build when a project needs frontend assets, without turning the whole site into a JavaScript application. This gives you a very fast build for static pages and total freedom to build or use any kind of frontend framework, or even just plain ol' JS! :)

The CLI can be installed directly or used through npm. Pannonico also has an MCP server for AI-assisted development, plus a VS Code extension and language server for project-aware editor support.

The Free edition is already public, and I have been spending some time measuring and improving the build pipeline to produce as smooth experience as possible.

Attached table shows a preview from the current 10,000-page benchmark, measured in pages per second. Build process adapts to your hardware, so it will scale with its capabilities.

• NPM plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pannonico
• VSCode plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vx-rs.pannonico
• Documentation: https://github.com/vx-rs/pannonico/tree/master/docs

This is not an official launch since the project is still in beta, and a lot can change, but I want to showcase how far I've got.

Other interesting features this CLI tool possess:

• CSS inlining, good for encapsulated HTML pages or HTML emails
• Numerous markdown improvements, like footnotes, or special blocks like warnings, errors, or whatever you want them to be
• Image optimization, similar to one used on tinypng.com - compression without quality loss
• Vite integration, not just as a frontend tool, but in a way that you can actually reference assets defined in Vite itself
• Pluralization and translation options
• ...and more, all in documentation

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To be honest, someone told me that I can't do it, and I said - hold my beer. :)

I am a web developer for 25+ years, with focus on frontend, developer tooling and UI design. This is my serious take at AI assisted development. My intention is to keep developing this as long as I am able to work, to create a stable and "boring" software you can depend on, like I was able to depend on Panini, once upon a time.

If anyone from Zurb is reading this - thank you!