What is DocPad?
Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft full-featured websites quicker than ever before.
DocPad is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
DocPad is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to DocPad's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses DocPad?
Developers
18 developers on StackShare have stated that they use DocPad.
Pros of DocPad
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DocPad's Features
- Versioning
- Pre-Built Skeletons
- Language Agnostic
- Simple Deploys
- Powerful Plugins
DocPad Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DocPad?
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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
