Franklin.jl vs Nikola
Franklin.jl
franklinjl.org
Nikola
getnikola.comSide by side
| Figure | Franklin.jl | Nikola |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 7.4 (#27) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Deployment | Generated site files can be deployed to an existing web server, through GitHub or GitLab, or on services such as Netlify. | Nikola sites can be hosted on any web server that serves HTML files, and the handbook lists GitHub Pages deployment support. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The project describes straightforward integration with Literate.jl. | The features page says Nikola can work with static-site CMS solutions including Dato CMS, Netlify CMS, and Contentful. |
| License | The official GitHub repository says Franklin is MIT licensed. | Nikola is released under the MIT license, while some bundled or required components use other licenses. |
| Product | Franklin is a customizable static site generator written in Julia, oriented toward technical blogging and light, fast-loading pages. | Nikola is a static site generator that turns content into a website ready to deploy. |
| Support | The repository recommends the #franklin channel on Julia Slack for usage questions. | The project directs users to GitHub Discussions, a Libera.Chat IRC channel, and GitHub Issues for bug reports; indexed plugins and themes are not officially supported. |
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In their own words
Franklin.jl
Franklin.jl has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
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.