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Gridsome vs Hugo: What are the differences?
What is Gridsome? Build blazing fast websites for any CMS or data with Vue.js & GraphQL ⚡️💚. Build websites using latest web tech tools that developers love - Vue.js, GraphQL and Webpack. Get hot-reloading and all the power of Node.js. Gridsome makes building websites fun again.
What is Hugo? A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 in GoLang. Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
Gridsome and Hugo can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.
Gridsome and Hugo are both open source tools. Hugo with 36.4K GitHub stars and 4.09K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Gridsome with 3.57K GitHub stars and 181 GitHub forks.
Kanteron Systems, Vufuzi, and Raygun are some of the popular companies that use Hugo, whereas Gridsome is used by Bazzite, CodeCarrot, and Digital Paper. Hugo has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 62 developers stacks; compared to Gridsome, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
As a Frontend Developer I wanted something simple to generate static websites with technology I am familiar with. GatsbyJS was in the stack I am familiar with, does not need any other languages / package managers and allows quick content deployment in pure HTML or Markdown (what you prefer for a project). It also does not require you to understand a theming engine if you need a custom design.
Pros of Gridsome
- Vuejs15
- GraphQL10
- Starter kit as a base for new project6
- Reusable components (Vue)5
- Open source4
- Allows to use markdown files as articles3
- Static-sites3
- Generated websites are super fast2
- Blogging website2
- Webpack0
Pros of Hugo
- Lightning fast47
- Single Executable29
- Easy setup26
- Great development community24
- Open source23
- Write in golang13
- LiveReload built in7
- Not HTML only - JSON, RSS7
- Hacker mindset7
- Easy to customize themes4
- Gitlab pages integration4
- Very fast builds4
- Easy to learn3
- Well documented3
- Fast builds3
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Cons of Gridsome
- Still young1
- Open source1
Cons of Hugo
- No Plugins/Extensions4
- Template syntax not friendly2
- Quick builds1
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