What is Nanoc?
It is a static-site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate website.
Nanoc is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
Nanoc is an open source tool with 2.1K GitHub stars and 241 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nanoc's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Nanoc?
Nanoc Integrations
Nanoc's Features
- Support for free-form metadata
- Support for various markup languages (Markdown, AsciiDoc, Textile, …)
- Support for various templating languages (eRuby, Haml, Mustache, …)
- Ability to write custom filters and helpers
- Ability to pull in data from other sources (databases, web APIs, …)
- Integration with various deployment mechanisms
- Ability to run pre-deployment checks
Nanoc Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Nanoc?
Middleman
Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.
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.
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.
