Metalsmith vs Middleman
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Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment. | In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files. |
Sass for DRY stylesheets;CoffeeScript for safer and less verbose javascript;Multiple asset management solutions, including Sprockets;ERb & Haml for dynamic pages and simplified HTML syntax | Read template files from a directory;Parse files for template placeholders;Prompt user to fill in each placeholder;Render files with aytemplating engine;Write filled-in files to a new directory |
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GitHub Stars 7.1K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 757 | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 170 | Stacks 53 |
Followers 192 | Followers 66 |
Votes 66 | Votes 19 |
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What are some alternatives to Middleman, Metalsmith?
Jekyll
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Hugo
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Gatsby
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Hexo
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Gridsome
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Pelican
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DocPad
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11ty
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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.
VuePress
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