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Hugo vs Nikola

A side-by-side look at Hugo and Nikola. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Hugo

Hugo

Development

Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes Markdown, JSON, YAML and TOML files and uses layouts to create static HTML pages very quickly.

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Nikola

Nikola

Development

Nikola is an open-source static site generator written in Python. It converts markdown, reStructuredText, Jupyter notebooks, HTML and other input formats into HTML sites, blogs and photo galleries. It is flexible and extensible with themes and plugins.

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