Bridgetown vs React Static
Bridgetown
bridgetownrb.comReact Static
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| Figure | Bridgetown | React Static |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 8.0 (#12) | 8.0 (#13) |
| CMS integration | Yes | Yes |
| Content sources | markdown | cms |
| Deployment | Static output can be deployed to any server that supports HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; the site recommends Render for full-stack production setups. | The README says generated data, templates, and HTML files can be transferred to a static file server. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The official plugin directory lists integrations and extensions for Directus, Cloudinary, Notion, Plausible Analytics, Sequel, and Lit SSR plus hydration. | Official plugins listed by the project add support for Emotion, Styled Components, SASS, LESS, Stylus, JSS, CSS modules, Preact, React Router, MDX, TypeScript, and sitemaps. |
| License | The Bridgetown source code is licensed under MIT. | The project states that React Static uses the MIT license. |
| Local preview server | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The documentation directs users who need help to Bridgetown community channels, including Discord chat. | The project directs users with questions to GitHub Discussions, where it says the community answers questions and discusses features. |
| Supported languages | Ruby,JavaScript | JavaScript,Node.js |
Plans
In their own words
Bridgetown
Bridgetown is a free site generator for building static sites, full-stack applications or a combination of both. It compiles Markdown, layouts and components into HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Static publishing features include permalinks, Git-based content deployment, atomic builds, data pipelines and pagination. Collections, taxonomies and content relationships organize material, which can be generated at build time or in real time and connected to a headless CMS or other web APIs. For full-stack applications, its Roda backend supports dynamic routes, server APIs and database connections such as PostgreSQL. Templates can use ERB, Serbea, Streamlined or Liquid; components support modular views, web components and Markdown inclusion. The frontend build system includes esbuild and PostCSS, and custom Ruby plugins can extend builds and content. Static output can be deployed anywhere that serves HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. Bridgetown supports Ruby and JavaScript, and its setup guides cover macOS, Fedora and Ubuntu Linux, and Windows through Windows Subsystem for Linux. Installation requires GCC and Make, Ruby 3.3 or newer, and Node 22.21 or newer.
React Static
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