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Letterpad vs Twill: What are the differences?
Letterpad: Letterpad is an open-source and a high performant publishing engine for blogs built with react & graphql and runs ridiculously fast 🚀. Letterpad is an open-source and a high performant publishing engine for blogs with a state-of-the-art technology. It uses React, Graphql, Express and Sequelize ORM; Twill: An open source CMS toolkit for Laravel. Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.
Letterpad and Twill can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Letterpad are:
- Server side rendering
- Multi author support
- Comments (Disqus integration)
On the other hand, Twill provides the following key features:
- Visual editor
- Responsive previewing
- Hi-res media library
Letterpad and Twill are both open source tools. It seems that Twill with 1.33K GitHub stars and 128 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Letterpad with 432 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks.
Pros of Letterpad
Pros of Twill
- Amazing visual editor with drag & drop13
- Powerful and customisable admin console12
- Beautiful UI and easy to use10
- A CMS that I actually *like* to use!8
- Easy for publishers to create media-rich narratives7
- Ensures the integrity of your design system7
- Flexible with easy to use editors7
- Flexible and Powerful CMS. Easy to setup6
- Scaleable and easy to maintain5
- Incredibly simple and beautiful interface4
- Ensures the integrity of the design system3
- Scaleable and easy to maintain3
