Icarus is a beautiful theme.

hexo-theme-icarus
The blog theme you may fall in love with, coming to Hexo.
https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus

Is a Static Site Right For You?
You can get good advices in this article.

A few years later, I think that some of the reasons mentioned in this article will not be a matter any more.

7 Reasons NOT to Use a Static Site Generator
https://www.sitepoint.com/7-reasons-not-use-static-site-generator/

Why use a static site generator?

• Less Complexity
• Speed
• Security
• Version Control
• Scalability and High Server Throughput

That means we can SAVE THE ENERGY OF THE WORLD.

Why use a static site generator?
https://learn.cloudcannon.com/jekyll/why-use-a-static-site-generator/

Back in the day, web pages were static sites, with only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There was no server code or database.

Modern sites generated by Static Site Generators consists only of HTML, CSS and JavaScript too.
There are no specific requirements for the type of the machine that will host the page, no back-end language restriction and no need for a database. As static files served to the browser, there are no actual vulnerabilities.

The best static website generators, and when you should choose them over a CMS
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/static-sites-are-back-24d01a01f11a

Why go static?
Amongst many reasons, speed and security rise above all others.

Top Ten Static Site Generators of 2017
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/05/25/top-ten-static-site-generators-of-2017/#why-go-static

Why Static Site?

• Speed
• Security

Why Now?

• the Browser Is Growing Up
• Performance Is a Must
• the CDN Is Going Mainstream
• Build Tools Are Everywhere

Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/

Comparison of Hexo, Hugo and Jeklyll on stackshare.io
https://stackshare.io/stackups/hexo-vs-hugo-vs-jekyll

If you prefer static sites, you need to know about JAMstack.
Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.

What is the JAMstack?

• JavaScript
• APIs
• Markup

Why the JAMstack?

• Better Performance
• Cheaper, Easier Scaling

https://jamstack.org/

A site that compares static site generators.
Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo, Next, Nuxt, etc.
Top 3 by Github stars: Jekyll, Next, Hugo.
Top 3 by Twitter followers: Nuxt, Gatsby, Jekyll.

StaticGen | A List of Static Site Generators for JAMstack Sites.
https://www.staticgen.com/

The first theme of my choice is Minos.
It’s simple and beautiful.

hexo-theme-minos
https://blog.zhangruipeng.me/hexo-theme-minos/categories/Documentation/

My demo blog url on Firebase is
https://hexo-learningroadmap.firebaseapp.com/

My demo blog url on Netlify is
https://hexo-learningroadmap.netlify.com/

My demo blog url on Github Pages is
https://hexo-learningroadmap.github.io/

It’s a very kind and detailed tutorial.

Getting Started with the Hexo Blogging Framework
https://www.cgmartin.com/2016/01/03/getting-started-with-hexo-blog/

Hexo theme ranking on Github Search

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=hexo-theme&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Top 10 themes based on github stars by @NoahDragon

https://en.abnerchou.me/Blog/5c00ca67/

You can find all themes here.

https://hexo.io/themes/

A curated list of awesome things related to Hexo.
Tutorials, Themes, Showcases.

awesome-hexo
https://github.com/hexojs/awesome-hexo

My demo blog url on now is
https://hexo-learningroadmap.now.sh/

According to policy about robots.txt of surge.sh, we can not set robots.txt. link

So I changed deployment tool to https://now.sh .
now is very simple also, and it supports Docker, Node.js applications.