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  5. Hakyll vs Pelican

Hakyll vs Pelican

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Overview

Pelican
Pelican
Stacks88
Followers113
Votes28
GitHub Stars13.1K
Forks1.8K
Hakyll
Hakyll
Stacks5
Followers5
Votes0
GitHub Stars2.8K
Forks417

Pelican vs Hakyll: What are the differences?

What is Pelican? A static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic. Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

What is Hakyll? A haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It provides you with the tools to create a simple or advanced static website using a Haskell DSL and formats such as markdown or RST.

Pelican and Hakyll can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Pelican are:

  • Blog articles and pages
  • Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)
  • Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates)

On the other hand, Hakyll provides the following key features:

  • Post body (i.e. excluding post metadata) is read
  • Result is passed to an abbreviation substitution filter
  • Result is passed to my custom Pandoc compiler

Pelican and Hakyll are both open source tools. It seems that Pelican with 9.02K GitHub stars and 1.59K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hakyll with 2.01K GitHub stars and 345 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Pelican
Pelican
Hakyll
Hakyll

Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

It provides you with the tools to create a simple or advanced static website using a Haskell DSL and formats such as markdown or RST.

Blog articles and pages;Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.);Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates);PDF generation of the articles/pages (optional);Publication of articles in multiple languages;Atom/RSS feeds;Code syntax highlighting;Import from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feeds;Integration with external tools: Twitter, Google Analytics, etc. (optional);Fast rebuild times thanks to content caching and selective output writing.
Post body (i.e. excluding post metadata) is read; Result is passed to an abbreviation substitution filter; Result is passed to my custom Pandoc compiler; Result is embedded into a post template with a so called “post context”; Result is embedded into the page layout.
Statistics
GitHub Stars
13.1K
GitHub Stars
2.8K
GitHub Forks
1.8K
GitHub Forks
417
Stacks
88
Stacks
5
Followers
113
Followers
5
Votes
28
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Jinja2
  • 4
    Easy to deploy
  • 4
    Implemented in Python
  • 3
    Plugability
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Markdown
Markdown
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DatoCMS
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Golang
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Buddy
Buddy
Pandoc
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Markdown

What are some alternatives to Pelican, Hakyll?

Jekyll

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

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.

Gatsby

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.

Hexo

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

Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.

Gridsome

Gridsome

Build websites using latest web tech tools that developers love - Vue.js, GraphQL and Webpack. Get hot-reloading and all the power of Node.js. Gridsome makes building websites fun again.

DocPad

DocPad

Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft full-featured websites quicker than ever before.

Metalsmith

Metalsmith

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.

11ty

11ty

A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML. Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.

MkDocs

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.

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