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Middleman vs Hakyll: What are the differences?
Developers describe Middleman as "A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development". Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment. On the other hand, Hakyll is detailed as "A haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs". It provides you with the tools to create a simple or advanced static website using a Haskell DSL and formats such as markdown or RST.
Middleman and Hakyll can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.
Some of the features offered by Middleman are:
- Sass for DRY stylesheets
- CoffeeScript for safer and less verbose javascript
- Multiple asset management solutions, including Sprockets
On the other hand, Hakyll provides the following key features:
- Post body (i.e. excluding post metadata) is read
- Result is passed to an abbreviation substitution filter
- Result is passed to my custom Pandoc compiler
Middleman and Hakyll are both open source tools. Middleman with 6.52K GitHub stars and 698 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Hakyll with 2.01K GitHub stars and 345 GitHub forks.
Pros of Hakyll
Pros of Middleman
- Rails for static sites20
- Erb, haml, slim18
- Live reload17
- Easy setup7
- Emacs org-mode integration by middleman-org3
- Make front-end easy and rock solid again1