HydePHP lets you make static websites, blogs, and documentation pages with the tools you already know and love.
HydePHP is a content-first Laravel-powered console application that allows you to create static HTML pages, blog posts, and documentation sites, using your choice of Markdown and/or Blade.
Build sites in record-time with a full batteries-included TailwindCSS frontend that just works without any fuzz.
Compared with other static site builders, Hyde is blazingly fast and seriously simple to get started with, yet it has the full power of Laravel waiting for you when you need it, as Hyde is powered by Laravel Zero, a stripped-down version of the robust and popular Laravel Framework, optimized for console applications.
Hyde makes creating websites easy and fun by taking care of the boring stuff, like routing, writing boilerplate, and endless configuration. Instead, when you create a new Hyde project, everything you need to get started is already there — including precompiled TailwindCSS, well-crafted Blade templates, and easy-to-use asset management.
Hyde was inspired by JekyllRB and is designed for developers who are comfortable writing posts in Markdown, and it requires virtually no configuration out of the box as it favours convention over configuration and is preconfigured with sensible defaults.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Content creation:
- Create blog posts using Markdown and Front Matter.
- Create documentation pages from plain Markdown, no front matter is needed.
- Create simple pages using Markdown, or create advanced ones using Laravel Blade.
- Scaffold blog posts and Markdown pages to automatically fill in the front matter.
- Scaffold Blade pages to automatically use the default layout.
- Built-in frontend:
- Comes with a TailwindCSS starter kit, so you can start making content right away.
- The starter kit is fully responsive, has a dark mode theme, and is customizable.
- The frontend is accessible to screen-readers and rich with semantic HTML and microdata.
- Automatically chooses the right layout to use depending on the content being rendered.
- Fills in and creates content like navigation menus and sidebars automatically.
- Easy asset managing:
- The Hyde starter comes with HydeFront to serve the base stylesheet and JavaScript through the jsDelivr CDN.
- Ships with precompiled and minified TailwindCSS styles in the app.css file, you can also load them through the CDN.
- This means that all the styles you need are already installed. However, if you want to customize the included Tailwind config, or if you add new Tailwind classes through Blade files, you can simply run the npm run dev command to recompile the styles using the pre-configured Laravel Mix package.
- Customization:
- No need to configure anything as Hyde is shipped with sensible defaults.
- Customize nearly everything.
- All frontend components and page layouts are created with Blade, so you can publish the vendor views, just like in Laravel.
- Override many of the dynamic content features like the menus and footer.
Website: hydephp.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Caen De Silva
License: MIT License
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