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Metalsmith vs Phenomic: What are the differences?

Developers describe Metalsmith as "An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator". 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. On the other hand, Phenomic is detailed as "A modern website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem". It is a modular website compiler that helps you to build static websites, with a modern approach: you will make your website the same way you build an app.

Metalsmith and Phenomic can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Metalsmith are:

  • Read template files from a directory
  • Parse files for template placeholders
  • Prompt user to fill in each placeholder

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

  • A static site generator like no other
  • A website built with things you like
  • A static website, 100% SEO friendly

Metalsmith is an open source tool with 7.32K GitHub stars and 645 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Metalsmith's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Plugability
  • 4
    Easy to install, easy to hack, easy to deploy
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    Really works hard to be simple
  • 1
    Chain plugins like a file processing pipe
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    CI: push to github, auto-deploy to netlifly (free)
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    Build any kind of website
  • 1
    Use any templating engine
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    What is 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.

    What is Phenomic?

    It is a modular website compiler that helps you to build static websites, with a modern approach: you will make your website the same way you build an app

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    What are some alternatives to Metalsmith and Phenomic?
    Wintersmith
    Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator. It takes contents (markdown, less, scripts, etc), transforms them using plugins and outputs a static website (html, css, images, etc) that you can host anywhere.
    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 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.
    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.
    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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