Eleventy vs Cryogen

Eleventy and Cryogen are both open source static site generators. Eleventy is written in JavaScript and Cryogen is written in Clojure.

Property Eleventy Cryogen
Language JavaScript Clojure
Templates Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, JavaScript, HTML, Markdown Selmer
License MIT EPL-1.0

Eleventy benefits

A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.

Cryogen benefits

Cryogen is a simple static site generator built with Clojure. It's shipped on Leiningen so setup is fuss free and there's no need to mess with databases or other CMS systems.

Cryogen reads through a directory containing your Markdown content, compiles it into HTML and injects the content into your templates with the Selmer templating system. It then spits out a ready-to-publish website complete with a sitemap and RSS feed.

Features

  • Blog posts and pages with Markdown
  • Tags
  • Table of contents generation
  • Default Twitter Bootstrap theme
  • Plain HTML page templates
  • Code syntax highlighting
  • Disqus support
  • GitHub Gist integration
  • Sitemap
  • Sass/SCSS compilation
  • RSS

Samples