DocPad: static website generator in CoffeeScript and Node.js

Yeah, I use it for prototyping EVERYTHING now. We just used it to prototype the new http://99dresses.com/ website - in about 5 hours we had 90% of it done. I really want to get enough spare time, or get someone to sponsor it so I can set it up as a SaaS as well as develop a plugin infrastructure for it. I've got some time this week, we'll have to see how I go - bit busy with other stuff to.

It's written in coffeescript and node.js instead of ruby. Jekyll is also made for blogging, for instance you have a _posts directory in Jekyll, in DocPad you have a src/documents page - this allows you to create urls like src/documents/about.html -> /about, and src/documents/projects/docpad.md -> /projects/docpad, and src/documents/posts/life.md -> /posts/life. Another great thing is that you can access the query engine inside the views, and the data associated to documents can be filled with whatever key values you want - so you can do advanced filtering/queries. The benefit is that you can extend the docpad server to do whatever you want (as it is just a node.js package) even add redirects and dynamic pages to the mix. Feel free to join me on #docpad on freenode.