Nanoc vs Toucan
Nanoc
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| Figure | Nanoc | Toucan |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 8.7 (#6) | 7.7 (#20) |
| CMS integration | No | Yes |
| Content sources | database | markdown |
| Deployment | Nanoc integrates with various deployment mechanisms and provides a nanoc deploy command, with examples for Git, rsync, GitHub Pages, Bitbucket, GitLab Pages and Netlify. | Toucan's deployment guide covers publishing a Toucan-based static site with GitHub Pages. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Multilingual support | Yes | Yes |
| Local preview server | Yes | Yes |
| Security | The site says static sites do not contain dynamic content and are therefore immune to most common attacks. | The documentation says static HTML served by a simple file server can provide faster load times and better security than pages generated dynamically for each request. |
| Supported languages | Ruby | Swift |
| What it does | Nanoc is a flexible static-site generator that transforms content such as Markdown or AsciiDoc into HTML. | Toucan is a Markdown-based static site generator written in Swift. |
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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.