What is Zine?

A Zine site is a collection of content files and layouts.

Zine turns your content into HTML, styles it using your layouts, and finally copies the result into an output directory that you can then publish on static hosting services like GitHub Pages.

Zine uses a structured approach to content authoring that helps keeping sizeable content collections manageable.

Zine is implemented from scratch in Zig and it’s so fast that it’s currently able to give you instant live updates when the development server is running, even though it rebuilds your entire site from scratch every time. As a datapoint, this website rebuilds in 7ms on a Mac Mini M2.

Cached rebuilds are planned and will implement surgical dependency tracking to ensure minimal rebuilds, keeping the authoring experience excellent at all scales.

Zine is pronounced like in fanzine.

A handcrafted authoring experience

Zine uses SuperMD for content and SuperHTML for defining layouts.

SuperMD is an extension of Markdown that allows you to define embedded assets and semantic constructs that would be impossible to express in Markdown without using inline HTML.

SuperHTML is an extension of HTML that focuses on expressing correct templating logic. With SuperHTML it’s impossible to generate syntactically malformed HTML and most mistakes become build time errors.

Learn more about file formats in Zine.

Watch the video

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Or, for a more hands-on approach, see our quickstart guide.