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What is Macaw? The code-savvy web design tool. It provides the same flexibility as your favorite image editor but also writes semantic HTML and remarkably succinct CSS. It's time to expect more from a web design tool.
What is Surge? Static web publishing for Front-End Developers. Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
Macaw and Surge are primarily classified as "Open Source Design" and "Static Web Hosting" tools respectively.
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- Free plan18
- Simple13
- Free custom domain support11
- Deployment via command line10
- Smart about urls3
- Fast2
- Automatic urls based on filenames1
- 404 status page based on 404.html1
- Free ssl1
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- No free redirects1
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What is Macaw?
It provides the same flexibility as your favorite image editor but also writes semantic HTML and remarkably succinct CSS. It's time to expect more from a web design tool.
What is Surge?
Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
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What are some alternatives to Macaw and Surge?
Webflow
Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!
Bootstrap Studio
Bootstrap Studio has an intuitive drag and drop interface, which is designed to make you more productive.
GitHub Pages
Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
Netlify
Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
Vercel
A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.