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34 Options ConsideredPriceLanguageTemplate Engine
Excellent
Pelican
PythonJinja2
Excellent
Octopress
Ruby–
Excellent
Middleman
Ruby–
Jekyll
RubyLiquid
DocPad
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Pelican

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Open source

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All code is available on GitHub.
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Active community

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Andris Pelcbergs
Bassetts
Top Pro

Content can be written in multiple formats

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Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
Andris Pelcbergs
Bassetts
Top Pro

Code syntax highlighting

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Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
Eric Parent
Top Pro

Multilingual

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Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
Indrajith K
Top Pro

Customisable Themes and support for Plugins

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Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
Roland Szabo
Top Pro

Import your existing blog from many sources

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Ryan
thermoplastics
Massimiliano Lambertini
Top Pro

Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine

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Uses Jinja.
Indrajith K
Top Pro

Support for unique templates per page

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Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
Paolo
Endi Sukaj
Massimiliano Lambertini
Top Pro

Quite fast even for sites with thousands of posts

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Can spin up an build sites with thousands of articles in a matter of seconds even on very old computers.
Luke Frisken
Top Con

A little bit slower than some of its competitors

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Octopress

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Laura Kyle
Stuart Kearney
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Very easy to use

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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...
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Lots of plugins (from Jekyll + 3rd party)

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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.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Based on Jekyll

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Uses Markdown for writing

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Uses the Markdown syntax for writing blogs.
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Inefficient

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Adding a new post, for example, causes the entire blog to be regenerated.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Some plugins have hard-coded values

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Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Not as flexible as Jekyll

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Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Code and data are intertwined

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Middleman

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Tim Etler
Top Pro

Built in minification, compression, and cache busting

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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.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Support for a variety of templating languages and preprocessors

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Middleman supports lots of compiled languages, such as Less, Markdown, Textile, CoffeeScript, Stylus and more.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Extensible and flexible

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Middleman has a resources page full of official and community extensions.
David Vogel
Top Pro

External pipeline management with Webpack

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Replace your Gulp, Grunt, Bower configs
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Embraces Rails conventions

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Middleman follows established conventions so if you know rails, you can easily pick up middleman.
Justin Cypret
Top Pro

Easy deployment options

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Endi Sukaj
Top Con

A little more complicated than other static site generators

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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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Jekyll

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betasoft
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain

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You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
betasoft
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog posts

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Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Has a built in server

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You can spin up a static server at localhost:4000 by running jekyll serve
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Code highlighting with pygments

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Jekyll has Pygments code highlighting built in so you can create syntax highlighted code blocks on your blog.
Ryan
betasoft
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Excels at blogging

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Jekyll pages are structured by posts, which makes it easier to build a blog.
betasoft
Laura Kyle
Francisco H C Felix
Top Pro

Decent documentation

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Link to docs
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Import your existing blog from many sources

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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
Laura Kyle
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Has built in watch mode

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Watch mode will reconstruct the site as pages are updated which is great for testing.
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Large, active and helpful community

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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.
Laura Kyle
Siddhartha Gadgil
Top Pro

Customisable with data and collections

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Can make sites very different from blogs but with a lot of pages by making templates using data and collections.
Ryan
Massimiliano Lambertini
Top Con

It's slow for sites with a lot of posts

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Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Byron Kellett
Top Con

Little Windows support

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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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DocPad

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Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Built on Node

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DocPad is published as an NPM module which makes it easy to integrate with an existing Node.js deployment.
David Gurney
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Has an active plug-in ecosystem

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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...
David Gurney
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Has Live Reload

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DocPad has a Live Reload plug-in that leverages websockets to automatically update the blog content for users live on the site.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Built on top of the Express framework

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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.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Has graphical admin interfaces for managing your blog

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There are multiple custom interfaces, including miniCMS available to DocPad which provide WYSIWYG editing and article management.
David Gurney
Andris Pelcbergs
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Easy to deploy

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Deployment plug-ins make deploying to hosting providers even easier, with plug-ins for GitHub Pages, AWS, and Google Storage.
flagrunner
Top Pro

MIT-licensed

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Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Prebuilt Skeletons

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Skeletons are boilerplate setups to provide a baseline structure for you to fill content into.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Document and file querying with Query Engine

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DocPad leverages Query Engine to provide a query API for querying files.
flagrunner
Top Con

Support for Handlebars templates is not mature - integration is awkward

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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 wi...
Laura Kyle
flagrunner
Top Con

More up-front investment to learn/use well

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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.
flagrunner
Top Con

Written in CoffeeScript (which could be a Pro depending on your preference)

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flagrunner
Top Con

Code samples in Documentation and any online Q&As are in CoffeeScript only (no JavaScript samples available)

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flagrunner
Top Con

The default template engine (Eco) only supports CoffeeScript, not JavaScript

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flagrunner
Top Con

The default template engine (Eco) does not support multi-line code tags

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Wintersmith

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Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
cornil
Top Pro

Markdown support

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Wintersmith has an extensive Markdown support. Default, it is rendered by Marked. However there are plugins available for others (such as Markdown-it).
Andris Pelcbergs
cornil
Top Pro

Templates

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Templating engine comes with Jade plugin and many third-party plugins.
Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
cornil
Top Pro

Very flexible

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Wintersmith only has a predefined directory structure, everything else can built any way you want.
Andris Pelcbergs
cornil
Top Pro

Built on node.js

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Node.js is a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications.
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Thin and disorganized documentation

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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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Hugo

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Open-source and free

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Code can be viewed on GitHub.
Luke Holder
Top Pro

Single Binary - Cross Platform

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Andris Pelcbergs
spf13
Top Pro

No dependencies

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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.
Alex
TRH
Top Pro

Clean workflow

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Create your new site, run the Hugo server, edit. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hugo stays out of the way.
xinsnake
Top Pro

Fast

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Bjørn Erik Pedersen
Top Pro

Flexible

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Chloe Montanez
Jotosman
Top Pro

Good documentation

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StudiousManungal
Top Pro

Very active community

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WhiteLilac
StudiousManungal
Top Pro

Many themes available

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Chloe Montanez
ArtisticUmay
Top Pro

Draft mode

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Allows you to see changes in real time.
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Nanoc

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Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Flexibly built

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Extensibile

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Nanoc has a modular architecture which makes it easier to incorporate plugins and functionality from other projects as well as extend functionality.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Helps you create multilingual sites

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Nanoc takes multilingual sites into consideration and has features to make translations easier to implement.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Unit testing integration

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Works well with compile to languages

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Nanoc is friendly with different CSS and HTML preprocessors, so you can easily use SASS, LESS, HAML, Markdown and more.
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Hexo

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leozhang
Top Pro

Fast and easy to use

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Laura Kyle
Endi Sukaj
Abdullah
Top Pro

Deployment is easy and fast

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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
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Generating a blog is pretty fast

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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.
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Constantly updated and actively maintained

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Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Complete and helpful documentation

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Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.
Laura Kyle
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

Relatively large community but the majority is non-english speakers

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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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Gatsby JS

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Helder S Ribeiro
jpjoyal
Top Pro

No page reload when navigating

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Stepan Anchugov
Top Pro

Based on React.js

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Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

Open Source

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thermoplastics
Stepan Anchugov
Top Pro

Live reload

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Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.
Kristaps
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

A lot of plugins

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Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.
Kristaps
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

Take content from any source

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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.
Kristaps
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

A static site and a React app in one

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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.
Darren Dub
Top Pro

GraphQL Data Layer.

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Helder S Ribeiro
Top Pro

Beautiful out-of-the-box blog starters

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Kristaps
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

A lot of examples

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Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.
Kristaps
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

Very active development

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Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.
Darren Dub
Top Pro

Built in code and data splitting.

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thermoplastics
Stepan Anchugov
Top Con

A bit raw

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You'll maybe have to tweak some JSX if you want something that's not covered by available themes.
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Jekyde

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Markdown and LaTeX support

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Markdown and LaTeX can be used at the same time.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Takes care of conflicts between Markdown and LaTeX

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By writing LaTeX formulas as $...$ and $$...$$ all conflicts will be avoided.
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Sphinx

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ideasman42
Top Pro

reStructuredText (extensible markup)

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thermoplastics
ideasman42
Top Pro

Extensible via Python

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See tutorial here.
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Metalsmith

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Laura Kyle
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Flexible beyond a static site generator

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Designed around plugins

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Everything in metalsmith is a plugin, and it is designed to make it easy to write new ones.
Andris Pelcbergs
Tim Etler
Top Pro

Chaining API

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Metalsmith uses a chaining API that's consistent and simple to use: Metalsmith(__dirname) .use(markdown) .use(templates('handlebars')) .build();
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Small community

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Bob Dobbes
Top Con

Not client enabled API chaining

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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 datas...
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Assemble

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Konstantin Tarkus
Top Pro

No dependencies on Ruby, Python... just JavaSctipt!

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Laura Kyle
Jon Schlinkert
Top Pro

Built on node.js

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Jon Schlinkert
Konstantin Tarkus
Top Pro

Powered by a popular template engine Handlebars

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Handlebars is the default template engine for Assemble, but you can add any template any you want.
Konstantin Tarkus
Top Pro

Highly customizable

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Jon Schlinkert
Top Pro

Markdown support

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Laura Kyle
Jon Schlinkert
Top Pro

Highly extensible

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Assemble can be extended with plugins/middleware, helpers and mixins.
Laura Kyle
Jon Schlinkert
Top Pro

Nested layout support

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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!
Konstantin Tarkus
Top Pro

Use mainstream build tools Grunt or Gulp

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Laura Kyle
Top Con

Documentation can be hard to navigate

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Especially for someone new to Assemble, it can be difficult to find what you're looking for in the documentation.
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Hakyll

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Fabián Heredia Montiel
Top Pro

Pandoc Markdown

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Simple format with LaTeX and syntax highlighting support.
Steven Shaw
Top Pro

Haskell

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Written in Haskell
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GNU Make

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Sean Lang
Top Pro

Manages complex dependency graphs

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You don't need to recompile the entire website at once - Make uses file modification times and a graph of dependencies to determine exactly what should be updated whenever a file is changed.
Sean Lang
Top Pro

Supports all languages

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Literally all of them. Make lets you call your compilers, preprocessors, and minifiers with standard process execution through whatever shell you want. You're not limited to any particular language or plugin format.
Endi Sukaj
Sean Lang
Top Pro

Parallel compilation

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Make can execute build steps in parallel, using as many processes as you allow it.
Sean Lang
Top Pro

Extensive documentation

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In the 40 years since its release, Make has been written about in several books, documented exhaustively in the official manual and covered by thousands of posts on blogs/Q&A sites. You can find examples for just about every pattern imaginable.
Sean Lang
Top Pro

Cross-platform

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Debian, Tru64, SuSE, RedHat, Slackware, IRIX, AIX, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX , MacOS X, etc. Even Windows has a port.
Sean Lang
Top Con

Quoting / Escaping issues

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While the Make language is thoroughly documented, quoting and escaping, especially with variables, can be unintuitive compared to other programming languages.
Belle
Alexander Sheremet
Top Con

Does not have a well-documented site building process

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To build a static site out of some source files, the user needs to know how to write makefiles, how to convert source files to HTML (using markdown, some templating engine, some RSS/atom generation tool, etc). Also, creating or adapting site templates seems to be a considerable work to do at the st...
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Grav

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Ryan
Rey Benher
Top Pro

Easy creation of templates and content

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Supports Twig for templating with Parsedown for fast Markdown and Markdown Extra support.
Ryan
Rey Benher
Top Pro

Easy to use admin panel

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Well designed, easily usable and modern admin panel is a boost as it lets Clients edit the content easily.
Ryan
Rey Benher
Top Pro

Custom fields for content

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YAML-based page headers allow you easily add custom dynamic fields to your content.
Ryan
Top Pro

Built-in package manager

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Georg
Top Pro

Open-source and free

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Roots

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Andris Pelcbergs
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Active development

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Roots has heavy corporate sponsorship and is worked on very actively as a full time job. That means you can rely on it.
Andris Pelcbergs
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Quick deploys

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You can deploy to heroku, github pages, s3, etc. with a single command.
Andris Pelcbergs
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Dynamic content

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Roots supports dynamic content like jekyll for every compiler and language.
Crash Override
Top Pro

Currently going through an upgrade

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Roots is currently in the process examining how to leverage newer technologies to make Roots even better. You can see the new project on github: https://github.com/carrot/roots-mini Here is the blog post explaining the next phase of Roots: https://medium.com/@jescalan/eaa10c75eb22#.uacjziaej Here...
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Custom compilers

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Not only does roots support a huge number of languages and compilers out of the box, it also allows you to insert custom compilers if you want. Fun fact, roots is the only static site generator that supports dogescript
Andris Pelcbergs
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Multipass compiles

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Roots compiles files once for each extension, which allows for some advanced options if you get to that stage
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Client-side templates

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Roots will precompile your templates into js, which makes it really smooth to work with client-side MV* frameworks.
Jeff Escalante
Top Pro

Quick

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Since roots is written in node, everything is compiled in parallel rather than in series, making it very quick.
Laura Kyle
İnanç Gümüş
Top Con

No i18n (Internationalization)

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There is no i18n support out of the box. And there is only one extension that does i18n compilation with a limited feature set.
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Nikola

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Belle
Top Pro

You can write posts using up to 40 languages

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Belle
Top Pro

You can use it for free

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It's free to use because it's an open-source software under the MIT license.
Endi Sukaj
Belle
Top Pro

Supports several formats

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Supports input formats for reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython (Jupyter) Notebooks and HTML.
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Ghost

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Marc Telesha
Top Pro

Non-profit foundation

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The project is maintained by a non-profit organisation called the Ghost Foundation, along with an amazing group of independent contributors.
Marc Telesha
Top Pro

MIT License

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Permissive License
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Webhook

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Andris Pelcbergs
enemykite
Top Pro

MIT Open Source

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A very flexible license to do whatever you want. Code available on GitHub.
enemykite
Top Pro

Friendly CMS that clients can use

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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.
enemykite
Top Pro

Works with Firebase

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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.
Endi Sukaj
Rey Benher
Top Pro

Flexible Content Creation

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Lets you describe your own content types and their own fields easily from the admin interface.
Alex
SincereEthniu
Top Con

Requires registration

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Even simple command line tools require registration.
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JBake

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Laura Kyle
Martin Weber
Top Pro

Server included

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Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
Martin Weber
Top Pro

Blog Aware

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RSS feed, archive and tag support. Posts/Topics are a first-class citizen in jbake.
Martin Weber
Top Pro

Runs on / Control from the JVM

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The site generator is just a specific usage of the JBake Java API. As such, jbake is easily integrated into other JVM software.
Martin Weber
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Typical inputs

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Markdown, asciidoc, plain HTML is supported
Martin Weber
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Open Source (MIT License)

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boosts permissive MIT License.
Martin Weber
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Runs on the JVM

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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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DaMo
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It converts from almost any human readable text, marked-up or not, to plain HTML

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DaMo
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No workflow

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To build a complete site, 3rd-party tools (scripts) are needed.

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