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Wintersmith
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Thin and disorganized documentation
The documentation for Wintersmith is lacking examples and clear explanations. It's also quite disorganized, making it difficult to find what you're looking for.
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Markdown support
Wintersmith has an extensive Markdown support. Default, it is rendered by Marked. However there are plugins available for others (such as Markdown-it).
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Templates
Templating engine comes with Jade plugin and many third-party plugins.
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Very flexible
Wintersmith only has a predefined directory structure, everything else can built any way you want.
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Built on node.js
Node.js is a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications.
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Grav
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Can be hosted with any provider
Since Grav is built with PHP, it can be hosted on almost all web hosting providers. If the provider supports Wordpress, they also support Grav.
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Easy creation of templates and content
Supports Twig for templating with Parsedown for fast Markdown and Markdown Extra support.
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Easy to use admin panel
Well designed, easily usable and modern admin panel is a boost as it lets Clients edit the content easily.
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Custom fields for content
YAML-based page headers allow you easily add custom dynamic fields to your content.
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Open-source and free
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Extensive Documentation
Documentation is not an afterthought! Grav has a dedicated documentation site plus loads of tutorials and guides.
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Extensive documentation
Documentation is not an afterthought. Grav has a dedicated documentation site plus loads of tutorials and guides.
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Built-in package manager
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CLI Tools
Command line tools such as dependency installation, cache clearing, user creation, and backups.
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Languages:
PHP
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Nanoc
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Flexibly built
Nanoc is a good choice if you need to support a site with a more complex structure than a simple blog. Nanoc is more agnostic to the types of pages you have, and allows you to do finer tuned refinements like customizing the URL structure.
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Extensibile
Nanoc has a modular architecture which makes it easier to incorporate plugins and functionality from other projects as well as extend functionality.
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Helps you create multilingual sites
Nanoc takes multilingual sites into consideration and has features to make translations easier to implement.
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Unit testing integration
Nanoc has a check command to run tests against your site and make sure it meets requirements you define. There are built in checks to validate HTML and CSS, as well as validating internal and external links.
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Works well with compile to languages
Nanoc is friendly with different CSS and HTML preprocessors, so you can easily use SASS, LESS, HAML, Markdown and more.
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Nikola
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HTML input
Nikola posts may be written in a variety of formats. You can write posts in HTML, with all the expressive power of HTML and CSS, and still have the benefits of a site-wide theme and navigation structure.
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Host on any web server
Nikloa sites are static files, and thus may be hosted on any web server that allows you to upload your own files. This lets you use simple and inexpensive hosting providers and still have a reliable site.
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Write in reStructuredText and Markdown
You have better choices for markup than raw HTML.
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Free open-source software (MIT license)
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Python 3
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Metalsmith
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Flexible beyond a static site generator
Because metalsmith is at its core focused on transforming directories of files, it can be used for more than just static site generation, and could be used as a build tool, a documentation generator, or any use that requires file transformations.
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Small community
The Metalsmith community is still fairly small compared to the more popular options. This results in a lack of learning resources and difficulty finding support from experienced users. However, a slack group has recently been started.
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Designed around plugins
Everything in metalsmith is a plugin, and it is designed to make it easy to write new ones.
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Not client enabled API chaining
According to the spec on API chaining, the API request/response need to associate an API object to an corresponding controller/action/uri to be able to validate and handle the request/response and the datasets. Without that, the consuming client service cannot properly validate or relate the datasets from one to the other. Links have no relational value and the api object creates the relationship between the datasets while maintaining an api/dataset relationship with the corresponding controller/action/uri As such, the current methodology supported would not be able to be called by the client not supported by the client in a RESTFUL manner
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Chaining API
Metalsmith uses a chaining API that's consistent and simple to use: Metalsmith(__dirname) .use(markdown) .use(templates('handlebars')) .build();
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MIT
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JavaScript
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Assemble
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No dependencies on Ruby, Python... just JavaScript
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Documentation can be hard to navigate
Especially for someone new to Assemble, it can be difficult to find what you're looking for in the documentation.
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Built on node.js
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Powered by a popular template engine Handlebars
Handlebars is the default template engine for Assemble, but you can add any template any you want.
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Highly customizable
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Markdown support
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Highly extensible
Assemble can be extended with plugins/middleware, helpers and mixins.
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Nested layout support
Assemble makes it easy to work with layouts. Layouts are used to "wrap" pages with common page elements, such as a header, footer etc. You can even nest layouts!
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Use mainstream build tools Grunt or Gulp
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Gatsby JS
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No page reload when navigating
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A bit raw
You'll maybe have to tweak some JSX if you want something that's not covered by available themes.
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Based on React.js
Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.
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Live reload
Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.
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A lot of plugins
Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.
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Very active development
Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.
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Built-in code and data splitting
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Open Source
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Take content from any source
Gatsby can generate the pages with content from any sources like Drupal, Wordpress, Contentful, etc. If the source plugin is not coded for your solution, you can create it.
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A static site and a React app in one
The static pages are generated by Server Site Rendering of the React app. So you have all benefits of a static site, and all benefits of a React app, which is very powerful.
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GraphQL Data Layer
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A lot of examples
Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.
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Beautiful out-of-the-box blog starters
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WonderCMS
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Easy to install
All you have to do is unzip and upload files without any database setup.
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Your website will break itself automatically
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Free and white label
Free and no "powered by" links.
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Easy to theme
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Very fast and easy enough for clients to edit
Blows PicoCMS away for Resume/CV, Portfolio, Landing/Single Page. Only Jekyll is faster (but no average client can edit it).
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License:
MIT
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Free
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PHP, jQuery
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Webhook
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MIT Open Source
A very flexible license to do whatever you want. Code available on GitHub.
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Requires registration
Even simple command line tools require registration.
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Friendly CMS that clients can use
Webhook has a CMS admin page that can be access on the live site. This lets your clients login and edit the site like a traditional CMS system.
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Works with Firebase
Rather than store the data in flat files, Webhook stores your data in Firebase, where it can be accessed similar to JSON from other applications.
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Flexible Content Creation
Lets you describe your own content types and their own fields easily from the admin interface.
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Multi Language Support:
JavaScript
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Middleman
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Too much magic happens
For new users it is hard to understand what is going on and why.
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Built in minification, compression, and cache busting
Minification and compression are as easy as setting a few configuration options, and unique asset hashes are available to allow you to invalidate the cache of files that change regularly.
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A little more complicated than other static site generators
Middleman is a big piece of software, it's not simply a static blog generator. Because of all the functionality and flexibility it offers it can be a little more complex than other static site generators and a little harder to learn all of its bells and whistles.
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Support for a variety of templating languages and preprocessors
Middleman supports lots of compiled languages, such as Less, Markdown, Textile, CoffeeScript, Stylus and more.
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Extensible and flexible
Middleman has a resources page full of official and community extensions.
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External pipeline management with Webpack
Replace your Gulp, Grunt, Bower configs
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Embraces Rails conventions
Middleman follows established conventions so if you know rails, you can easily pick up middleman.
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Easy deployment options
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Hexo
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Fast and easy to use
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Relatively large community but the majority is non-english speakers
Hexo has a relatively large following and community, especially in China. While this is certainly a positive, many developers who do not know chinese would be unable to follow all the guides and tutorials out there written by their chineses counterparts.
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Deployment is easy and fast
Hexo built sites can be easily deployed to Github pages, Heroku, Openshift (custom cartridge needs to be setup) or any other custom solution (just copy over thepublic folder). Any deployment is as simple as editing the _config.yml file and running the hexo deploycommand
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Generating a blog is pretty fast
Generating a new blog with Hexo is generally really fast. Hexo truly lives up to it's name as a simple and fast static website generator.
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Constantly updated and actively maintained
Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.
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Complete and helpful documentation
Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.
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License:
MIT
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JavaScript
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Swig, EJS, Haml, Pug
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, Org-Mode
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JBake
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Server included
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
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Runs on the JVM
JVM is a double-edged sword (startup time, memory usage, CPU overhead, ...) which might be considered overkill for a static site generator.
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Blog Aware
RSS feed, archive and tag support. Posts/Topics are a first-class citizen in jbake.
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Runs on / Control from the JVM
The site generator is just a specific usage of the JBake Java API. As such, jbake is easily integrated into other JVM software.
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Typical inputs
Markdown, asciidoc, plain HTML is supported
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Open Source (MIT License)
boosts permissive MIT License.
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License:
MIT
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Language:
Java
Template Engine:
Freemarker, Groovy, Thymeleaf, Jade
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Kirby CMS
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Kirby is a file‑based CMS
Installing means uploading some files to your server and that's it.
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Euro 99,– per domain
Kirby CMS costs Euro 99,– (plus VAT) per installation. There is no longer a discount for private websites.
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Great Community
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Kirby 3 pricing went up
The price went up with Kirby 3 as the CMS grew. It's still worth it but maybe not for small websites. Tip: They sometimes offer social pricing on demand for small structures or students.
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Good support
Well documented and friendly community.
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Price model
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Markdown syntax
Write your content with plain Markdown or use Kirbytext.
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Custom panel
You can create custom panel (admin section) for every page type with ease.
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Very customisable
From very simple pages to highly customised content models, almost anything is possible. Fast prototyping.
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Great community
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Open source
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Not free for commercial
This is good thing. Free CMS always have some hidden pricing model that you eventually pay actually more than this.
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Super Flexible
The entire CMS is extremely flexible and very easy to use.
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Open for unconvetional/exoerimental solutions
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Languages:
PHP
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Octopress
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Not Actively Developed
Last commit is Feb 22, 2016, Social media hasn't been updated. Dead project?
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Very easy to use
Octopress is designed to remove all the time-consuming and frustrating tasks you usually have to deal with when using Jekyll. You don't have to write your own HTML templates or do any configuration to get started. The default template also takes care of any basic CSS/JS you need to write to get going.
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Inefficient
Adding a new post, for example, causes the entire blog to be regenerated.
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Lots of plugins (from Jekyll + 3rd party)
Another advantage of being based on Jekyll is default access to the extensive plugin system for Jekyll. There are also plugins developed specifically for Octopress.
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Some plugins have hard-coded values
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Based on Jekyll
As Octopress is simply a framework on top of Jekyll, it benefits from being based on one of the most popular site generators available. The primary benefit is that it is backed by git and is built in such a way that the site can be easily re-generated if the content changes.
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Not as flexible as Jekyll
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Uses Markdown for writing
Uses the Markdown syntax for writing blogs.
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Code and data are intertwined
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Harp
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Compiles assets on request
Rather than regenerate the whole site when a file changes, Harp only reloads what is necessary, keeping the compile time fast.
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Limited extensibility
There are no plugins available to extend the functionality or language support of Harp.
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Supports popular languages
Harp supports a large variety of languages, including Jade, CoffeeScript, Stylus and Sass. See the full list here.
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DocPad
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Built on Node
DocPad is published as an NPM module which makes it easy to integrate with an existing Node.js deployment.
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Support for Handlebars templates is not mature - integration is awkward
Handlebars' philosophy of "no logic in templates" makes some things difficult: DocPad built-in template helpers aren't available by default - they have to be manually added/exposed DocPad's example template code often includes logic, which makes it impossible to use within Handlebars templates -- it has to be abstracted into custom helper functions. Can't pass objects to function calls from within HB templates.
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Has an active plug-in ecosystem
DocPad's has a large amount of plug-ins available to extend its functionality and compatibility with other language preprocessors and markup languages. Javascript preprocessors include: Coffescript, TypeScript, and LiveScript. CSS preprocessors include: LESS, SASS, Stylus, and Roole HTML markups include: Markdown, and Textile Templating engines include: Eco, Handlebars, Moustache, HAML, CoffeeKup, Jade, and Teacup JSON converters include: YAML and CSON
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More up-front investment to learn/use well
DocPad provides a LOT of extensibility and dynamic capability, which means there's more up-front investment to learn DocPad well -- and deviating from the defaults while maintaining project robustness may be difficult.
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Has Live Reload
DocPad has a Live Reload plug-in that leverages websockets to automatically update the blog content for users live on the site.
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Written in CoffeeScript (which could be a Pro depending on your preference)
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Built on top of the Express framework
Although DocPad is a static site generator, if you find the need to, you can extend the site with the Express framework for dynamic content as well.
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Code samples in Documentation and any online Q&As are in CoffeeScript only (no JavaScript samples available)
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Has graphical admin interfaces for managing your blog
There are multiple custom interfaces, including miniCMS available to DocPad which provide WYSIWYG editing and article management.
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The default template engine (Eco) only supports CoffeeScript, not JavaScript
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Easy to deploy
Deployment plug-ins make deploying to hosting providers even easier, with plug-ins for GitHub Pages, AWS, and Google Storage.
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The default template engine (Eco) does not support multi-line code tags
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MIT-licensed
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Prebuilt Skeletons
Skeletons are boilerplate setups to provide a baseline structure for you to fill content into.
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Document and file querying with Query Engine
DocPad leverages Query Engine to provide a query API for querying files.
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Pelican
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Open source
All code is available on GitHub.
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Theme inheritance doesn't seem to be a priority
There have been endless discussions for years but theme inheritance still doesn't seem to be a thing. You can "inherit" from the simple theme so you don't have to have all the required files in your theme, but that's as far as it goes.
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Active community
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Not as powerful as other more popular site generators
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Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine
Uses Jinja.
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A little bit slower than some of its competitors
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Code syntax highlighting
Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
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Support for unique templates per page
Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
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Content can be written in multiple formats
Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
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Import your existing blog from many sources
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Customisable Themes and support for Plugins
Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
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Multilingual
Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
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Quite fast even for sites with thousands of posts
Can spin up an build sites with thousands of articles in a matter of seconds even on very old computers.
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Python
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Appernetic
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PageDown editor with image upload
Non-developers can easily write and update content using the inline PageDown editor.
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Integrated git flow
Git and GitHub is used for version control, cloning, publishing and syncing of your Appernetic Hugo project. No need to manually enter git commands.
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Fast set-up
A Hugo site is configured with git, a file structure and a theme in 2 min instead of 30 min.
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Integrated Cloudinary image management
You automatically get a cloudinary link when you upload an image.
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Developers have complete control over the source code
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Flextype
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Dynamic Content Types
Define unlimited custom fields for any of your entries.
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Same CMS repackaged
Same CMS that got regurgitated over and over for years.
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Free
MIT-licensed open source project and completely free to use.
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No external DB required
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Built-in REST API
Provides APIs organized around Representational State Transfer (REST) for working with content.
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Version Control
It is easy to version control all content in Flextype with GIT or any other Version Control System.
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Flexible
Simple but powerful Core API's.
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Super Fast
Elegance architecture and built-in smart cache.
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Tokenized API
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Technology:
PHP
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Hugo
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Open-source and free
Code can be viewed on GitHub.
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No tutorial on how to create a theme from scratch
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Fast
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No dependencies
All other SSGs expect you to have a full toolchain setup for their language. Hugo is written in Go and distributed as an executable for unix, linux, windows and mac. Just download and run.
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Clean workflow
Create your new site, run the Hugo server, edit. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hugo stays out of the way.
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Flexible
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Good documentation
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Many themes available
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Draft mode
Allows you to see changes in real time.
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Single binary - cross platform
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Single source publishing
Can create PDFs, eBooks, RSS-Feeds, language and market specific Websites from single content folder.
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Great multipurpose development platform
We are using Hugo as the base-framework for a full blown knowledge management system, idea-management and inhouse brainstorming tool. Hugo source-code is well structures and comes with top components out of the box, that makes every solution built on this framework incredible fast and scalable accross platforms and corporate silos! Hugo - when being used as a framework is a game-changer that puts Sharepoint, Wordpress and Co. back to the shelf.
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Very active community
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Easy to add new content types, data files, and taxonomies
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Language:
Go
Template Engine:
Go html/template
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
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