Why epresso?

epresso is a Python-first static site generator. It brings the content-first, component-based model of modern static-site frameworks to Python authors: content collections with typed schemas, code-as-routes pages, scoped CSS, and no-JavaScript-by-default output — all expressed in Python rather than JSX/TS.

• Routes-as-code: files under pages/ are code, not opaque config. A .ep page has a Python frontmatter that can export get_static_paths() for dynamic routes.
• Content collections with typed schemas and deterministic loaders.
• Deterministic + incremental builds: content digests drive a build graph so unchanged pages are served from cache.
• No JavaScript by default: server-rendered HTML; JS is opt-in per component.

Use it when you want content-first static sites and would rather write Python.