Assemble vs Hugo vs Octopress

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Assemble

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Hugo

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Octopress

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Pros of Assemble
Pros of Hugo
Pros of Octopress
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      Lightning fast
    • 29
      Single Executable
    • 26
      Easy setup
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      Great development community
    • 23
      Open source
    • 13
      Write in golang
    • 8
      Not HTML only - JSON, RSS
    • 8
      Hacker mindset
    • 7
      LiveReload built in
    • 4
      Gitlab pages integration
    • 4
      Easy to customize themes
    • 4
      Very fast builds
    • 3
      Well documented
    • 3
      Fast builds
    • 3
      Easy to learn
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      Cons of Assemble
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      Cons of Octopress
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        • 4
          No Plugins/Extensions
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          Template syntax not friendly
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          Quick builds
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          What is Assemble?

          Most popular site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman. Assemble is used to build hundreds of web projects, ranging in size from a single page to 14,000 pages (that we're aware of!).

          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 Octopress?

          Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. It’s easy to configure and easy to deploy.

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            What are some alternatives to Assemble, Hugo, and Octopress?
            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.
            VuePress
            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.
            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.
            Middleman
            Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.
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