# Flat files

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/storage/flat-file/
Facet: Content storage — every value: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/storage/

29 projects store content in flat files, listed alphabetically. Mostly site and docs generators, content management systems and Headless CMSs, of 6 categories in all.

Flat-file software reads content from files in the project, often Markdown with frontmatter, and turns them into pages at build time or on request. Content can live in the same Git repository as the code, so changes are reviewed, versioned and deployed together, and hosting needs no database. Concurrent editing by many people and large volumes of structured data are where teams often add a database. A record holds this value when its documentation describes files on disk as a content source.

170 records do not record this field and cannot appear here either way.

For 374 records the question does not apply.

## Software (29)

- [Astro](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/astro/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/astro.md
- [Bagatto](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bagatto/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bagatto.md
- [BSSG](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bssg/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bssg.md
- [Docusaurus](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/docusaurus/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/docusaurus.md
- [Eleventy](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/eleventy/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/eleventy.md
- [Faircamp](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/faircamp/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/faircamp.md
- [Grav](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/grav-cms/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/grav-cms.md
- [HastySite](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hastysite/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hastysite.md
- [Heckle](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/heckle/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/heckle.md
- [Hugo](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hugo/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hugo.md
- [Jekyll](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/jekyll/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/jekyll.md
- [Kart](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/kart/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/kart.md
- [Keystatic](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/keystatic/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/keystatic.md
- [Makko](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/makko/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/makko.md
- [Material for MkDocs](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/mkdocs-material/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/mkdocs-material.md
- [Nift](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nift/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nift.md
- [Node-RED](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/node-red/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/node-red.md
- [Nuxt Content](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nuxt-content/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nuxt-content.md
- [Pushword](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pushword/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pushword.md
- [Rspress](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/rspress/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/rspress.md
- [Slidev](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/slidev/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/slidev.md
- [Starlight](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/starlight/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/starlight.md
- [Statamic](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/statamic/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/statamic.md
- [Tome](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/tome/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/tome.md
- [Velite](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/velite/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/velite.md
- [VitePress](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vitepress/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vitepress.md
- [Vocs](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vocs/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vocs.md
- [Zola](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/zola/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/zola.md
- [zs](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/zs/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/zs.md

## Questions

### Which of these is best?

We can't tell from here. What suits an editor-heavy marketing site can be wrong for a static documentation site. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it.

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