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Scholar-Lite

Scholar-Lite: The Zero-Maintenance, Blazing Fast Academic Portfolio Theme


Cost

Free


Created by
Jiadong Feng

Scholar-Lite: The Next-Gen Static Site Solution for Labs & Academics

Scholar-Lite is the high-performance alternative designed for research groups, laboratories, and efficiency-driven academics and professors. We eliminate the bulk and complexity of traditional academic themes, allowing you and your team to focus entirely on research, not web development.

✨ Key Features & Benefits

📄 Versatile Design Perfectly suited for a Research Group's official website or an Individual Academic Portfolio, demonstrating team and personal research achievements with unified, high-performance standards.

⚡ Bleeding-Edge Performance Built on the latest Astro v6 + Tailwind CSS v4 stack. Achieves a Zero JavaScript Runtime by default for content pages. Guarantees an effortless 100/100 Lighthouse Score for Accessibility, SEO, and Performance out of the box.

🤖 Intelligent BibTeX Automation Drop-in Sync: Manage thousands of publications with a single `citations.bib` file. Smart Parsing: Automatically extracts and generates buttons for PDFs, Code (GitHub), Videos, and Project Pages from BibTeX fields. Auto-Badging: Automatically highlights achievements like "Best Paper," "Oral," or "Spotlight" awards without manual entry.

🌍 Native Internationalization (i18n) Built-in multi-language support (English/Chinese/Japanese/etc.) designed for global academic collaboration. Multilingual Full-Text Search: Integrated Pagefind engine that searches across all languages instantly on the client side.

⚙️ Developer & Showcase Automation Dynamic OG Image Generation: Automatically renders social media sharing images (Open Graph Images) for every page, including dynamically generated content, ensuring flawless social SEO. Mockup Asset Generation: Includes a built-in script to instantly generate professional desktop and mobile device mockups from your screenshots, eliminating manual design work for promotion.

🏆 Comprehensive Asset Management Go beyond just papers. Dedicated content collections for Team, News, Research Projects, Patents, Software, Honors, and Activities. The robust structure is perfectly suited for both Large Laboratory Sites and Individual Academic Portfolios.

🛠️ Zero-Maintenance Workflow Push-to-Deploy: The update process is simplified to a single `git push`. Seamlessly configured for Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages.