What is Cactus?
Cactus makes setting up a website look easy. Choose a template for a blog, portfolio or single page and Cactus generates all files and folders to get you on your way.
Cactus is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
Cactus is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Cactus's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Cactus?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Cactus in their tech stacks, including Hactar, Founders, and ebusinesslab.
Developers
Cactus Integrations
Pros of Cactus
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Cactus's Features
- Mac App
- Focus on editing - Under the hood, Cactus runs a small local web server for each website you're working on. This makes it possible to build your website locally, using modern web technologies, and have the results generated to a collection of flat files.
- Live preview anywhere - Cactus monitors all changes you make to your files and automatically refreshes your browser. Preview your project on mobile devices, and they'll instantly refresh too.
- Deploy with confidence - Cactus uses Amazon S3 for fast, reliable and inexpensive hosting, so you can get your projects on the web faster.
Cactus Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cactus?
Cacti
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Marvel
A super simple tool that turns any image (including PSDs) or sketch into interactive prototypes for any device.
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JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
