When comparing Lektor vs JBake, the Slant community recommends JBake for most people. In the question“What are the best static site generators?” JBake is ranked 26th while Lektor is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose JBake is:
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Data model driven
Pro Static HTML
You can deploy static HTML in any host - S3, GitHub Pages, any webhost etc.
Pro Supports Linux, OSX and Windows
Pro Open source software
Pro Server included
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
Pro Blog Aware
RSS feed, archive and tag support. Posts/Topics are a first-class citizen in jbake.
Pro 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.
Pro Typical inputs
Markdown, asciidoc, plain HTML is supported
Pro Open Source (MIT License)
boosts permissive MIT License.
Cons
Con Documentation not always up to date
Con Very few example themes
Con 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.