Hexo
Doug Bromley
Sep 1, 2015
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CommentsWhat is 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.
Hexo is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Blazing Fast - Node.js brings you incredible generating speed. Hundreds of files take only seconds to build.Markdown Support - All features of GitHub Flavored Markdown are supported. You can even use most Octopress plugins in Hexo.One-Command Deployment - You only need one command to deploy your site to GitHub Pages, Heroku or other sites.Various Plugins - Hexo has a powerful plugin system. You can install more plugins for Jade, CoffeeScript plugins.
Hexo Pros & Cons
Pros of Hexo
- ✓Ease of deployment
- ✓Uses NodeJS and npm
- ✓Easy GitHub Pages publishing
- ✓Powerful templating
- ✓Useful tools and plugins
- ✓Easy intergrating with js
- ✓Blazing Fast
- ✓Open source
Cons of Hexo
No cons listed yet.
Hexo Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hexo?
Gatsby
Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
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.
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.
