After a long time I have resumed work on Nicolino.
A lot of effort was spent on making it fast and correct, which then implied a lot of fixes in ralsina/croupier because this exercises it a lot.
How did it turn out?
Nicolino’s site, including image galleries, thumbnails, mdbook-style books, blog posts about releases and so on, builds cold in under a second in my machine.
Same site, if there are no changes, “builds” in about 0.2 seconds
A 4000-post benchmark site builds in roughly 0.65 seconds (optimized binary) to 1.7 seconds (normal build)
Hugo, the “standard” for fast static site generators, builds the same 4000-post site in 0.9 seconds, so Nicolino is about 30% faster (see benchmarks
I am specially happy with the mdbook-like implementation, which you can see in the User Guide and the import command that lets you integrate 3rd-party feeds into your own site (in this case, it pulls GH releases feed into the main site here)
I think it’s basically in good shape and more or less feature complete :-)
This looks great - and I’m keen to try it as it seems perfect for my use case. I believe the release is for linux, and I’m on Mac, so I’ve just cloned down the project and done a shards build and found at the last build step, I see the following error:
Error target nicolino failed to compile:
Showing last frame. Use --error-trace for full trace.