Why I use Zola.

Zola is a static site generator written in Rust. I wanted to bootstrap this personal blog and host it cheaply on a CDN. I shortlisted Zola for these reasons:

7.1k Github stars assured me this wasn't going to be a fly-by-night hobby project.
A single binary file that I could simply sudo dnf install zola on my Fedora PC.
I hacked out, in no time, this blog website by just following the Get Started tutorial.
The Documentation looked slimmer than Hugo's, which indicated a less complicated system?
Support for {{ shortcode() }} and syntax highlighting.
When writing markdown, double space at the end of sentence will produce a line break <br>.

If you wanted to include your blog posts on the home page, use this snippet in the `index.html` template:

{% block content %}
{% set posts = get_section(path="blog/_index.md") %}
{% for page in posts.pages %}
<article>
  {{ page.content | safe }}
</article>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock content %}

There's more to Zola that I've yet to delve into.

Why I use Zola.

If you wanted to include your blog posts on the home page, use this snippet in the index.html template:

If you wanted to include your blog posts on the home page, use this snippet in the `index.html` template: