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Jekyll
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GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
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It's slow for sites with a lot of posts
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Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog posts
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Little Windows support
Windows is not an officially supported platform and setting it up on Windows requires a lot more tinkering than Linux or OSX.
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Has a built in server
You can spin up a static server at localhost:4000 by running jekyll serve
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Code highlighting with pygments
Jekyll has Pygments code highlighting built in so you can create syntax highlighted code blocks on your blog.
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Excels at blogging
Jekyll pages are structured by posts, which makes it easier to build a blog.
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Decent documentation
Link to docs
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Import your existing blog from many sources
Jekyll supports importing from many dynamic blog engines: CSV Drupal 6 Drupal 7 Enki Google Reader Joomla Jrnl Marley Mephisto Movable Type Posterous RSS S9Y Textpattern Tumblr Typo WordPress WordPress.com
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Has built in watch mode
Watch mode will reconstruct the site as pages are updated which is great for testing.
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Large, active and helpful community
Thanks to it's popularity, Jekyll has a large and active community of users. This means there is plenty of learning material available for Jekyll and it's easy to find help from other users when needed.
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Customisable with data and collections
Can make sites very different from blogs but with a lot of pages by making templates using data and collections.
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MIT
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Ruby
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Liquid
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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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Write.as
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Protects your privacy
Works totally anonymously or you can sign up with a pen name.
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Very simple
The editor only lets you write plain text, select from a few fonts, and use Markdown for formatting. It's difficult to use Write.as for more complicated blogging or creating a full website.
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No sign up required
You can publish without ever signing up or giving out your email address.
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The writing space is very limited
The writing window is limited to only about one-fifth of the page, the rest is just blank. You can only see about three lines of text at a time. Seems like a mismanaging of space.
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Clean writing space
It's made for writing, so there aren't crazy buttons and alerts all over the place to distract you.
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License:
AGPL
Price:
$1-$25 / month
Free tier:
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Language:
Go
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WordPress
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Complete control if needed
If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit.
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A bit of bloat and complexity
WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such it's not as lightweight as it used to be. It also considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions.
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Widely used
According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options.
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Dated
The code is a mess, uses dated conventions, and relies on dated technology.
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Self-host & WP-host options
For free WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of wordpress.com. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting.
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Open source
Anyone can view the code of WordPress since it's under a libre/open source license.
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RSS feeds for everything
Including tags and categories.
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Post-level privacy controls
Each post can have a different access level.
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License:
GPLv2
Language:
PHP
Default Template Engine:
PHP
Store Support:
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GoNevis
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Free
Absolutely free for a lifetime. No cost at all.
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Advanced open-source dashboard
GoNevis Dash is an open source project/product that you can participate directly to improve, either by submitting code, reporting bugs, reviewing patches, etc...
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Themes
Different templates and themes.
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Built-in commenting
You don't need to use external commenting widgets on your site, all the comments and discussions happening on the website are stored under your account and can be easily managed and moderated.
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Free subdomain
Get a free subdomain registered under gonevis.com.
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Follow/Subscription support
People can subscribe and receive notifications on new posts.
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Full SSL Support
Using secure connection on all the website's traffic.
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Granular permissions engine
You can bring your whole team to each website and give them permissions such as Author, Admin, Owner, etc. and manage your entire website with your team.
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Content tagging
To keep content management simple, #tags are available instead of categories.
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File manager
With file manager Dolphin, keep all your photos, music, videos, documents, and other files under control.
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Built-in search
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Custom Google Analytics code
Using user's own Google Analytics code.
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Custom domain
Users can connect their own domain to their website. For example, jungle.gonevis.com => jungle.com or even blog.jungle.com. There's no limit on how many custom domains users can set on their website.
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Static pages
Websites and blogs can have static pages alongside their index page. Such as About, Contact or even dedicated pages and links to display a page with selected tags or categories.
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Disabling Google Analytics code
Users can disable Google Analytics from their website. In that, GoNevis will not put any analytics code on their website.
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Built-in SEO
When someone shares content from your website, related information such as images, title, description and other data that will be recognized by social media.
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Author Global Profile
Each user on GoNevis.com have a global profile, this will help each publisher to get more coverage.
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Author profile
Each writer will have a profile on their blog or website. This will make it easy for visitors to read all the content published by the author.
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Embeds
Can embed many different website widgets such as: YouYube Instagram Twitter SoundCloud Vimeo GitHub gists Pastebin ....
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Guest Subscriber
Can follow a blog without having to create an account on GoNevis. https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
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Guest Commenting
Ability to Comment on blogs without having to create any account. It's possible to subscribe to further notification of comment section to be notified when there's a reply form the author or other commenters. https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
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Circles & Group Publishing
Circles allow you to share the content exclusively only for a group of selected people. Sometimes you may want to make a post or an article only available to a group of people, like your Friends or Family members or even your coworkers. https://blog.gonevis.com/circles/
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Monetization
Can user Google AdSense for monetization. Just add your Google AdSense code, no custom tag is required.
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Email & Live Chat Support
Direct Live Chat and Email Support regardless of the being Free or Paid user.
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White Label
You can remove GoNevis footer link.
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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
Template Engine:
Swig, EJS, Haml, Pug
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, Org-Mode
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KeystoneJS
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Out-of-the-box Admin UI
Keystone comes with an auto-generated Admin UI, which makes things very easy for any task that can be completed using Keystone. In any way Keystone is used, the Admin interfaces saves a lot of time and makes any job easier.
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It does not have a built-in roles system
Although registering a new user is very easy, there is not any roles system out-of-the-box. There is only a check box "Access keystone" which gives a user full administrative power. Adding different kind of users is only possible by editing the user data model.
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Keystone comes with Express already configured
Express comes out of the box already configured from Keystone or it can be treated like any other Express Middleware.
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Horrible documentation; Keystone5 is unfinished and the team dumped it for a whole (stripped down) new version
Team even admits to a lot of areas being undocumented. Just spent 5 months implementing Keystone5 just to have it marked for deprecation. Next version removes DB Adapters (the entire reason for us implementing it). This project is poorly managed, and extremely difficult to extend due to incomplete documentation.
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Keystone has easy form processing
Using the data models defined by the developer, Keystone can validate forms automatically without any more setup. Form validation doesn't get easier than this.
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No auto-reload and no good support for RDBMS
Does not have auto-reload in its backend. Hard to debug. Features found in document, absent in code. No enough support to PostgresQL, no automatic migration
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Many cool features
Great CMS with auto-generated admin, schemas...
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No default option to add pages in admin panel
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Easy to install and use
KeystoneJS is very easy to install and use.
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It's hard for front-end developers with no MVC experience setting up views
Keystone follows MVC practices in managing routes, views and templates. Back-end developers with experience in working with MVC frameworks will find themselves at ease since the beginning, but developers who work on the front-end only will have a hard time finding what they are supposed to do to set up templates and such.
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Easy email management features
With Keystone it is easy to set up an email management system for an application. It has template-based emails and it's also integrated with Mandrill (Mailchimp's transaction email sending service)
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Some working knowledge of JavaScript, NPM and Databases is needed
MongoDB is required to be up and running and a Yeoman generator is used to generate the application. Although the prompt based start-up in the command line helps you a lot, it still can be hard for someone inexperienced with NPM and Yeoman.
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Keystone uses MongoDB through Mongoose
Keystone allows the usage of MongoDB since it comes with Mongoose, the most popular ODM for node and Mongo, this means that anything that is built using Mongo can be built with Keystone.
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Packaging externals libraries is tricky
Unless you want to import every JS.
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Numerous amounts of templating engines are supported
Keystone supports almost all templating engines out there. Although it uses Jade directly after a fresh install and it points to using it further, other template engines can be installed and used instead.
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Effective session management
Keystone has advanced and effective session management and authentication features. Logging in and signing up is easy and it even has password encryption out of the box.
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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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License:
MIT
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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
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Go
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Go html/template
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
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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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Handlebars, Jade/Pug,...
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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:
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enduro.js
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Hardly any github commits since fall '16
See: https://github.com/Gottwik/Enduro/graphs/code-frequency
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Minimalistic
No clutter and useless features.
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No support for databases
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Beautiful admin panel
Clients are always amazed how smooth and good looking the admin interface is.
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Community size
The community around the project looks quite small. Anyone to confirm my thought ?
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Productive
Currently, probably the most productive CMS around. There is almost no setup, admin is auto generated, 100% development in code editing, shared backend/front end templates, and shared javascript code.
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MIT
Service integrations:
nODE
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JavaScript
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Grav CMS
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Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
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Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
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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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Language:
Python
Template Engine:
Jinja2
Markup Languages:
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Drupal
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Great for enterprise use
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
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Steep learning curve
Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time.
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Free and open source
Drupal is free to use and open source.
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High resource consumption
A more complex Dupal installation can easily exhaust 256 MB of RAM with only one or two visitors.
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Active community
Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles.
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Documentation is a joke
With currently 3 different version of drupal in active use, and at that constantly changing capibilities within 2 of those, it means that when you look for documentation is if often for a different version that you are running and in addition is not at all easy to consume. Often the info you need is in comment #100 of a thread.
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Great templating engine
Twig is a game changer!
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Lacks good free modules and themes
Most good third-party modules and themes are costly.
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Multi-lingual support
Starting with Drupal 8, there's built-in multi-lingual support.
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It's easy to transfer config changes from dev to production
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Highly customizable
Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions.
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RESTful
Drupal 8 has REST services built in.
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Good accessibility
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Drupal has full SEO capabilities
(vs Joomla, which lacks SEO capabilities), there is an essential issue for promotion.
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Semantic HTML5
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Excellent SEO
Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO.
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Responsive front-end and back-end
Drupal 8 follows responsive design philosophy out of the box, both front-end and back-end.
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Drupal 8 and higher leverage composer and all of the wonderful PHP packages. Instead of building functionality from scratch, it utilizes existing libraries
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Clean, beautiful pages
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
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Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
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Excellent readability
There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.
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Not self-hostable
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Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
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Cannot customise domain address
From April 2018, Medium has removed the ability to set a customised domain on new accounts.
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Clean writing experience
Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
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Proprietary
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Great inbound channels to acquire bigger audiences quickly
Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.
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Limited customization options
In order to create a dead simple way to use the service, possibility to customize your blog was sacrificed. Medium publications, however, do allow a limited amount of customization.
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Unintrusive yet powerful community interaction
Allows for finding new, related content.
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Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment system
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Great post editor
A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.
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Freemium philosophy
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Bookmarking
Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.
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Export is limited
The only export option is HTML. If you want to migrate away from Medium for some reason, it might be very difficult to do so.
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Paragraph based commenting
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
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Recommendation system
Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.
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Photo upload and display is aesthetically pleasing
If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.
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Built-in analytics
Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.
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Collaborative if you want it to be
You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.
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Google Analytics support
They can enable this for you upon request.
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Excellent Post editor
With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.
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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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Generated html is very bad
A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning.
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Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
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Hard to migrate away
There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to.
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Straightforward drag & drop interface
There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.
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Dated templates
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Personalized templates
Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.
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Unpleasant sign-up process
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Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed
This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.
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Great support
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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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