DocPad vs Wintersmith

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 powerful static sites quicker than ever before. (by docpad)

Source Code

docpad.bevry.me

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Wintersmith

A flexible static site generator (by jnordberg)

Static Site Generators Static Site Generator NodeJS Wintersmith

Source Code

wintersmith.io

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DocPad		Wintersmith
	Project
-	Mentions	2
3,051	Stars	3,497
0.0%	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
CoffeeScript	Language	CoffeeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

DocPad

Posts with mentions or reviews of DocPad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning DocPad yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Wintersmith

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wintersmith. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.

Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing DocPad and Wintersmith you can also consider the following projects:

docsify - 🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for Node.js

Assemble - Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at web development! Used by thousands of projects for rapid prototyping, themes, scaffolds, boilerplates, e-books, UI components, API documentation, blogs, building websites/static site generator, an alternative to Jekyll for gh-pages and more! Gulp- and grunt-friendly.

Phenomic

gray-matter - Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

front-matter - Extract YAML front matter from strings

Charge - ⚡️ An opinionated, zero-config static site generator.