Assemble vs Nikola
Assemble
assemble.io
Nikola
getnikola.comSide by side
| Figure | Assemble | Nikola |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 7.8 (#17) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Extensibility | The project documents support for Gulp and Base plugins and says any Gulp plugin can be used in its pipeline. | Users can add features with Python plugins and create themes with Mako or Jinja2. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| License | The maker’s Grunt Assemble repository says it is released under the MIT license. | Nikola is released under the MIT license, while some bundled or required components use other licenses. |
| Product | Assemble is a static site generator for Grunt.js, Yeoman and Node.js. | Nikola is a static site generator that turns content into a website ready to deploy. |
| What it does | The project describes Assemble as a command line tool and developer framework for rapid prototyping and static site generation. | Nikola is a static website and blog generator that turns written content into a folder of HTML files for upload to a server. |
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In their own words
Nikola
Nikola is a static site and blog generator that turns written content into HTML files and assets for a web server. It can build blogs, company and personal sites, software project sites, and book sites. Built-in inputs include reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython notebooks, and HTML, with plugins available for additional formats. Blog components include comments, tags, categories, archives, and RSS/Atom feeds; image galleries and code listings are also included. Nikola supports almost 40 languages out of the box, including posts in multiple languages. Sites can be hosted on any web server that serves HTML files, and the handbook lists GitHub Pages deployment. The software is written in Python 3, with Python 3.8 or later listed on the homepage, and is free under the MIT license. Users can extend it with Python plugins and make themes using Mako or Jinja2. Incremental builds use doit. Because generated sites do not run code on the server, they cannot process form input except for comments. Indexed plugins and themes are not officially supported.