Jamstack — Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
A directory on jamstack.org ranking static-site-generators by GitHub stars, aimed at developers building jamstack sites.
Top of the ranking
- Next.js — 133,884★ — “framework for statically-exported React apps”
- hugo — 82,968★ — Go
- docusaurus — 61,371★ — React/Markdown docs
- Gatsby — 55,916★ — React
- astro — 52,942★ — “less client-side JavaScript”
Data shown per generator
GitHub stars & forks, open issues, primary language, template engine(s), license, description, and deploy-to-Netlify options.
Jamstack’s framing
Positions SSGs as essential to modern web dev: pre-render to separate content from presentation, yielding performance, security, and deployment simplicity — the jamstack value proposition.
Why it’s here
The popularity-ranked view of the ecosystem. Note its #1 (Next.js) and several top entries are React meta-frameworks, not pure SSGs — showing the category’s boundary is blurring into general web frameworks (a tension noted in synthesis). Pairs with the use-case-organized awesome-static-generators.