Why should I use zola?

[suterma]

Why should I use zola?

[Keats]

Hi

There was a comparison at some point with other SSGs but keeping it up to date is too hard and there are too many with completely different paradigms, eg how do you compare something like zola to a SSG where you use React. The React one is likely going to be more flexible but much more work.

The points are really from the homepage https://www.getzola.org/ :

• a binary so no npm/ruby env/python env to set up. You can even commit it in your repo if you want
• fast: there's a site that renders 120k+ pages in <30s
• (hopefully) simple to use

As for your points:

1. It should work with most CSS frameworks except Bulma basically because of their weird Sass file naming
2. It's explained in the second paragraph of https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/#zola-at-a-glance
3. That has to be done manually
4. Not sure what you mean by post to the shared hoster but there are a bunch of deployment guides if you look at the sidebar on the left: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/
5. You can use GH pages with any SSG, all the zola sites are on GH pages
6. there is multi-language support (https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/multilingual/) but the i18n part in the templates it not great

[suterma]

Thanks for answering these points. I really appreciate it, and zola is looking great as an SSG for me. Addressing some points:

• Just for reference, vue2 maintained such a comparison, and I liked it as a developer when being new to vue. It's also serving as a reassurance for the project's developers that they are actually adding value, not just creating another thing.
• I encountered the Bulma problems while researching, and I also devised a quite simple, yet effective workaround: jgthms/bulma#3675 (comment)
• For the deployment, I suggest you also include an explicit mention of how to publish with a shared hoster, mine is cyon, and they allow both FTP and SSH. I know it's likely too trivial to actually explain how to actually do it, but an entry in the sidebar you mentioned with very basic content, would make it clear that this is a thought-of option.
• Language support looks good enough for me.

Thanks to the zola team for giving us this great tool!