Jigsaw vs Nanoc
Jigsaw
jigsaw.tighten.coNanoc
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| Figure | Jigsaw | Nanoc |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 7.6 (#21) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Content sources | markdown | database |
| Deployment | The documentation describes deploying Jigsaw sites to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Amazon S3, Kinsta Application Hosting, or an existing server. | Nanoc integrates with various deployment mechanisms and provides a nanoc deploy command, with examples for Git, rsync, GitHub Pages, Bitbucket, GitLab Pages and Netlify. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| License | The project repository identifies its license as MIT. | Nanoc is licensed under the MIT license. |
| Local preview server | Yes | Yes |
| Supported languages | PHP,Node.js | Ruby |
| What it does | Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using modern web application tooling. | Nanoc is a flexible static-site generator that transforms content such as Markdown or AsciiDoc into HTML. |
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In their own words
Nanoc
Nanoc is a free static-site generator that turns content such as Markdown or AsciiDoc into HTML. It is a command-line application for local site development and generating finished sites for deployment, not a CMS; content is usually managed on the filesystem. Its scope ranges from personal blogs to corporate websites. Free-form metadata lets pages take different roles, and markup options include Markdown, AsciiDoc and Textile, with eRuby, Haml and Mustache among its template languages. Users can write custom filters and helpers or bring in data from databases and web APIs. Nanoc supports incremental builds, multilingual sites and a local preview server. Deployment integrations include Git, rsync, GitHub Pages, Bitbucket, GitLab Pages and Netlify, and the tool can run checks before deployment. Ruby 3.1 or later is required, with CRuby needed for guaranteed support. macOS and Linux are officially supported; Windows has limitations and is not officially supported. Nanoc is MIT-licensed.