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Hexo vs Gatsby Cloud: What are the differences?

What is Hexo? A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js. 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.

What is Gatsby Cloud? The best way to build and maintain Gatsby sites. It is the perfect cloud complement for Gatsby and provide a lot of cloud services Gatsby users need like real-time preview and very fast builds.

Hexo and Gatsby Cloud can be categorized as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Hexo are:

  • 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.

On the other hand, Gatsby Cloud provides the following key features:

  • Real-time Preview: View live content updates from your headless CMS
  • Blazing fast Gatsby builds in the cloud (in beta)
  • Performance reports

Hexo is an open source tool with 28.7K GitHub stars and 3.77K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hexo's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Gatsby Cloud
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    Able to have multiple sites for multiple clients.
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    Ease of deployment
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    Uses NodeJS and npm
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    Easy GitHub Pages publishing
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    Powerful templating
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    Useful tools and plugins
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    Easy intergrating with js
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    Open source
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    Blazing Fast

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What is Gatsby Cloud?

It is the perfect cloud complement for Gatsby and provide a lot of cloud services Gatsby users need like real-time preview and very fast builds.

What 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.

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