Middleman vs Nikola
Middleman
middlemanapp.com
Nikola
getnikola.comSide by side
| Figure | Middleman | Nikola |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 7.5 (#26) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Deployment | The maker describes `middleman-deploy` as a deployment tool that supports rsync, FTP, SFTP, or Git. | 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 |
| Product | Middleman is a static site generator built as an easy-to-use framework for building websites. | Nikola is a static site generator that turns content into a website ready to deploy. |
| Support | The maker offers paid consultation and development, including code reviews, team education, custom extension development, and project architecture planning. | 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. |
| What it does | Middleman is a static site generator for building websites with tools used in modern web development. | 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
Middleman
Middleman 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.