Nanoc VS MiddleMan

When we decided to open-source our blog and docs, we were spoilt for choices. Today there are multiple well-supported and fully-featured frameworks for open-source content creation. Some of the options that we considered were Ghost, Jekyll, Hugo, Nanoc, and Gatsby. There are even more frameworks beyond these, and each tool has its pros and cons. Which one do we recommend? Well, we don’t. The best tool for you is... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

My websites use a static site generator, that means I have folders of Markdown files and they get converted by this program to HTML. (I'm using nanoc for nearly a decade, but other generators work fine. I like Ruby, so that's why I never tried any of the new JS stuff.) I don't just hit publish on my whole Zettelkasten, but that would work as well if you point your static site generator to your note archive. Source: almost 3 years ago

Last time I was evaluating static site generators, Dimples and Nanoc both stood out for this recent-updates reason, among other personal criteria. https://github.com/waferbaby/dimples https://nanoc.ws/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

I've been looking for something like that for months and now I am pretty confident that such thing does not exist. You can try to bend existing SSG solution to be more wiki-like, but that's all. In that department, I have most success with Zola. But since you asked it in Ruby sub, have a look at Bridgetown or nanoc. Source: about 3 years ago

Most of the Static Site Generators default to generating blog from markdown, which is not feasible for company websites etc. For such projects I like Middleman (https://middlemanapp.com) which provides layouts/partials and things like haml templates. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I've done similar with Middleman, and I'm 99% sure you could set this up with Pelican if you wanted. It sounds like the site generation workflow is the issue rather than the tool. Source: 11 months ago

I use middleman[^1] + bulmaCSS + FontAwesome but host on github using the `github.io` domain and upload podcasts to "archive.org"[^2]. The reason I choose this setup is because I want the content to survive as much as possible, hence open source technology and "free & long lived" hosting were requirements. [^1]: https://middlemanapp.com/ [^2]: https://archive.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Thanks u/Draegan88, but what's Middleman got to do with app architecture & design/ERD/schema design? Source: over 1 year ago

A simple middleman app consumes the data and builds a static export that runs standalone (just HTML, CSS and some JS files). That gets FTP'd/released to the webserver. Source: about 2 years ago