Engineer
Static website generator written in Python that builds sites from Markdown posts and Jinja 2 templates.
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/repositorydocs
Engineer is a static website generator written in Python. Posts are written in Markdown and stored as text files, templates are written in Jinja 2, and the output is HTML files that can be uploaded to any web host with FTP or rsync, as the deployment page describes. The engineer command builds the site and engineer serve starts a small development server for previewing it.
The introduction says Engineer is not a CMS and that it assumes most content comes as articles.
Worth knowing
The command reference says the development server is not designed for production. The introduction states that Engineer requires Python 2.7 and has not been tested on Python 3. It describes Emma, an optional management site, but the documentation page for Emma reads “Coming soon”.
Identity
- Status
- Stub
- Maintainer
- Tyler Butler4
- Maintained by
- Individual
- First release
- 20125
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files, Dev only78
- Rendering
- Static output6
- Install with
- pip3
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: links
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/ - 2026-10-23: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/tylerbutler/engineer - 2026-10-23: links, Install with
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/installation.html - 2026-10-23: Maintainer
raw.githubusercontent.com/tylerbutler/engineer/main/LICENSE.txt - 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
pypi.org/pypi/engineer/json - 2026-10-23: Categories, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Templating, Rendering, Content storage
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/intro.html - 2026-10-23: Runs as
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/deployment.html - 2026-10-23: Runs as
engineer.readthedocs.io/en/master/cmdline.html - 2026-10-23: License model
github.com/tylerbutler/engineer/blob/main/README.md - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/tylerbutler/engineer/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Downloads a month
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/engineer