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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.
Pros of Gatsby Cloud
- Able to have multiple sites for multiple clients.1
Pros of Hexo
- Ease of deployment18
- Uses NodeJS and npm13
- Easy GitHub Pages publishing12
- Powerful templating10
- Useful tools and plugins7
- Easy intergrating with js4
- Open source3
- Blazing Fast3
