pow VS softcover

Compare pow vs softcover and see what are their differences.

pow

Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X (by basecamp)

softcover

CLI for book generation, building, and publishing to softcover.io (by softcover)
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pow softcover
3 1
3,444 430
- 0.9%
10.0 6.0
almost 4 years ago 6 days ago
CoffeeScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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pow

Posts with mentions or reviews of pow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.
  • Richard Schneeman's How to Open Source book is out! 🤩
    4 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Sep 2022
    Is this the POW you're talking about? https://github.com/basecamp/pow
  • Doctree
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2022
  • Apple Monterey reserves port 5000, a common web development port
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
    I don't think IANA explicitly reserved .dev. It was made popular as a local dev domain by Basecamp's Pow[1]. IANA only defines .test, .example, .invalid, .local, and .localhost as reserved (with .onion being the latest addition in 2015[2])

    Though in this list, only .test and .example are marked as non-special and must be resolved normally by RFC 6761, and .local is reserved for mDNS by RFC 6762. In this list, .test would have been the most appropriate for Pow to use.

    CydeWeys (Tech Lead of Google Registry) has commented on HN in the past that they did not anticipated people weren't following the best practices[3], which makes me think IANA should have given .dev the same treatment as .onion: by explicitly reserving them (but this is another topic to discuss).

    [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/pow

    [2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7686.html

    [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CydeWeys

softcover

Posts with mentions or reviews of softcover. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.
  • Richard Schneeman's How to Open Source book is out! 🤩
    4 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Sep 2022
    I'm between softcover and leanpub right now, about 150 pages in. I don't love either, and I'm leaning towards the "ok just do it myself" but that'd take away from the actual writing part, but it sounds more fun, but the writing part... redo.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pow and softcover you can also consider the following projects:

doctree - First-class library documentation for every language (based on tree-sitter), with symbol search & more. Lightweight single binary, run locally or self-host. Surfaces usage examples via Sourcegraph.

bookbuilder - A simple template and workflow for publishing books with Pandoc

htpasswd - Apache httpasswd file reader/writer in Elixir

CodeTriage - Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects

ueberauth - An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications

guardian - Elixir Authentication

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phx_gen_auth - An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.

coherence - Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix

elixir-boilerplate - âš— The stable base upon which we build our Elixir projects at Mirego.

hexpm - API server and website for Hex