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Advice on Hugo, Jekyll, and Pelican

Joseph Jones

Apr 2, 2021 | 5 upvotes · 15.6K views

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to decide which front-end tool, that will likely use server-side rendering (SSR), in hopes it'll be faster. The end-user will upload a document and they see text output on their screen (like SaaS or microservice). I read that Gatsby can also do SSR. Also want to add a headless CMS that is easy to use.

Backend is in Go. Open to ideas. Thank you.

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Vishal Gupta

Senior Architect at Mindtree Ltd · Apr 9, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 9.6K views

Recommends

Next.js

Gatsby

If your purpose is plain simply to upload a file which can handle by backend service than Gatsby is good enough assuming you have other content pages which will benefit from faster page loads for those Headless CMS driven pages. But if you have more logical/functional aspects like deciding content/personalization at server side of web application than choose NextJS.

Decisions about Hugo, Jekyll, and Pelican

Manuel Feller

Frontend Engineer at BI X · Jul 22, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 98.8K views

Chose

Gatsby

over

Jekyll

Hugo

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.

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Pros of Hugo

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Lightning fast
26
Single Executable
23
Easy setup
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Great development community
21
Open source
12
Write in golang
6
LiveReload built in
6
Hacker mindset
6
Not HTML only - JSON, RSS
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Easy to customize themes
3
Gitlab pages integration
2
Fast builds
1
Well documented
1
Easy to learn
1
Very fast builds

75
Github pages integration
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Open source
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It's slick, customisable and hackerish
23
Easy to deploy
22
Straightforward cms for the hacker mindset
6
Gitlab pages integration
4
Best for blogging
2
Easy to integrate localization
2
Low maintenance
1
Huge plugins ecosystem
1
Authoring freedom and simplicity

7
Open source
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Jinja2
4
Implemented in Python
4
Easy to deploy
3
Plugability
2
RestructuredText and Markdown support
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Easy to customize
1
Can run on Github pages

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No Plugins/Extensions
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Template syntax not friendly
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Quick builds

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Build time increases exponentially as site grows
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Lack of developments lately
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Og doesn't work with postings dynamically

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What is Hugo?

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.

What is Jekyll?

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.

What is Pelican?

Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

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Hexo

Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

MkDocs

It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.

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Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.

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A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.

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