Lektor is a static website generator. It builds out an entire project from static files into many individual HTML pages and has a built-in admin UI and minimal desktop app.

To see how it works look at the top-level example/ folder, which contains a showcase of the wide variety of Lektor's features.

For a more complete example look at the lektor/lektor-website repository, which contains the sourcecode for the official lektor website.

For installation instructions head to the official documentation:

• Installation
• Quickstart

This gets you started (assuming you have Python, pip, Make and pre-commit installed):

$ git clone https://github.com/lektor/lektor
$ cd lektor
$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install --editable .
$ make build-js
$ pre-commit install
$ export LEKTOR_DEV=1
$ cp -r example example-project
$ lektor --project example-project server

If you want to run the test suite (you'll need tox installed):

$ tox