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Cobalt

Straightforward static site generator written in Rust that turns Markdown pages, posts and Liquid layouts into a static site.

Cobalt is a static site generator written in Rust. It reads Markdown pages and posts, and renders them through Liquid layouts that can include shared fragments from an _includes directory. Content is kept as files in the site directory. Running cobalt build writes HTML files to _site, ready to be served by a web server. The cobalt serve command builds the site and serves it locally while watching for changes, and posts start as drafts until they are published with cobalt publish.

The project’s deployment guide describes publishing the output to GitHub Pages or GitLab Pages through a CI job, and uploading it to a self-hosted server with rsync or a git hook.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Cobalt contributors1
Maintained by
Community1
First release
201711

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Static files8
Rendering
Static output8
Install with
binary download5

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.012
Last release
2026-02-1912

Adoption

GitHub stars
1,5372
Contributors
5213

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-23: links, Maintainer, Maintained by, Written in, Categories
    cobalt-org.github.io/
  2. 2026-10-23: links, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs
  3. 2026-10-23: links
    cobalt-org.github.io/docs/
  4. 2026-10-23: description
    github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/blob/master/README.md
  5. 2026-10-23: Runtime, Install with
    cobalt-org.github.io/docs/install/
  6. 2026-10-23: Content storage
    cobalt-org.github.io/getting-started/
  7. 2026-10-23: Templating
    cobalt-org.github.io/docs/layouts/
  8. 2026-10-23: Rendering, Runs as
    cobalt-org.github.io/docs/usage
  9. 2026-10-23: License
    raw.githubusercontent.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/master/LICENSE-APACHE
  10. 2026-10-23: License, License model
    raw.githubusercontent.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/master/LICENSE-MIT
  11. 2026-10-23: First release
    api.github.com/repos/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/releases?per_page=100
  12. 2026-10-23: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/releases/latest
  13. 2026-10-23: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/contributors?per_page=1

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