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Middleman vs VuePress: What are the differences?

Middleman: A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment; VuePress: A static-site generator built by the Vue.js team. A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.

Middleman and VuePress can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Middleman are:

Sass for DRY stylesheets
CoffeeScript for safer and less verbose javascript
Multiple asset management solutions, including Sprockets

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

Built-in markdown extensions optimized for technical documentation
Ability to leverage Vue inside markdown files
Vue-powered custom theme system

Middleman and VuePress are both open source tools. VuePress with 13.2K GitHub stars and 1.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Middleman with 6.49K GitHub stars and 696 GitHub forks.

DigitalOcean, esa, and MAK IT are some of the popular companies that use Middleman, whereas VuePress is used by Bazzite, CodeCarrot, and Frank Taxibot. Middleman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to VuePress, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 28 developer stacks.

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Rails for static sites
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Erb, haml, slim
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Live reload
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Easy setup
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Emacs org-mode integration by middleman-org
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Make front-end easy and rock solid again

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It's Vue
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Created by the vue.js developers
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Built in text search feature

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What is Middleman?

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

What is VuePress?

A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.

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What are some alternatives to Middleman and VuePress?

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.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

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 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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