Ozu is open for beta testers.

It’s been a long time coming, but Ozu is finally ready for beta testing—and we couldn’t be more excited!

What is Ozu?

The mantra is this: propose a nice solution to develop and maintain a static website with a dynamic content, keeping the productivity and great DX of Laravel. In a few more words, Ozu is a Laravel package designed to help you build a static website while keeping a classic Laravel workflow (that we love) as much as possible, an infrastructure to deploy it in one click, and a nice and complete content management system to allow you (or your client) to update and publish the content of the website.

To find out a bit more, here’s the introduction post (with outdated screenshots).

What’s in the beta?

Well, everything, but... in beta. We are looking for feedback on the whole product, so if you have a use case now is the time to register. We will send you a link to fill a form to give us some context about your project, and we will get back to you with the beta access.

Here’s a screencast recorded a while ago (the UI has evolved since then but the spirit is still there), presenting the development process of an Ozu project:

Another good resource is the readme of the code16/ozu-client package (read it on GitHub) which is a good starting point; we also made our dummy test project public, also available on GitHub (the amazing static production website of this thing is here).

We already shipped a few real Ozu websites in production, at Code 16, and we are quite happy with the results, and the feedback from our clients.

What’s next?

We won’t set a release date just yet (lesson learned!), but with Sharp 9 finally out, we’re shifting focus to Ozu. The stable version is coming soon!