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title: Installation
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author: Jasper Van der Jeugt
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Why static websites?
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Modern web frameworks make it easy to create huge dynamic websites. Why would
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anyone still care about a static website?
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- Static websites are fast, because it's simply files served directly from the
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hard disk.
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- Static websites are secure. Nobody has ever found an SQL injection in static
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pages.
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- Static websites are easy to deploy. Just copy them to your webhost using
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(S)FTP/rsync/scp and you are done. They work on all webhosts: no CGI or extra
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modules needed for the web server.
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Why Hakyll?
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Hakyll is a [Haskell] library meant for creating small-to-medium sized static
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websites. It is a powerful publishing tool, precisely because of the power of
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Haskell. By using the awesome [pandoc] library, it is able to create your
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website from a large variety of input formats.
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[Haskell]: http://haskell.org/
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[pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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Features include:
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- easy templating system;
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- a simple HTTP server for previewing and compiling your website on the go;
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- powerful syntax highlighting;
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- modules for common items such as tags and feeds;
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- easily extensible.
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