bowen

bowen is a fork of Zola, starting its own release line at version 0.1.0.

It remains a fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.

For inherited Zola behavior, see the Zola Documentation or the docs/content folder in this repository.

This fork is derived from Zola 0.22.1 and adds Typst-backed math rendering support plus optional D2 diagram rendering. Project-specific behavior should be documented here as bowen diverges from upstream.

Features

• Single binary
• Syntax highlighting
• Typst-backed math rendering
• D2 diagrams rendered to inline SVG
• Sass compilation
• Assets co-location
• Multilingual site support (Basic currently)
• Image processing
• Themes
• Shortcodes
• Internal links
• External link checker
• Table of contents automatic generation
• Automatic header anchors
• Aliases
• Pagination
• Custom taxonomies
• Search with no servers or any third parties involved
• Live reload
• Deploy on many platforms easily: Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, etc

License

bowen contains code under multiple licenses.

Code derived from Zola is licensed under the EUPL-1.2. Code that existed in Zola prior to commit 3c9131db0d203640b6d5619ca1f75ce1e0d49d8f remains licensed under the MIT License, including in later versions of this project.

Additional bowen modifications are licensed under the EUPL-1.2 unless noted otherwise.

See LICENSE and LICENSE-MIT for details.