In this guide we'll present Hexo, an open-source static site generator suitable for building blogs and documentation websites. We'll cover installation, working with layouts, generating posts and providing content, customizing and installing third-party themes, and deploying to Heroku. 

An Introduction to Hexo

Preface

A static website consists of pages that are served “as is”: a set of HTML pages (along with JS, CSS, and images) are sent directly sent to the client, without any additional server-side processing. Compare this with websites powered by Django or Rails, where web pages are generated from templates on the server when they’re called.

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