Gridsome vs django-distill

Gridsome and django-distill are both open source static site generators. Gridsome is written in JavaScript and django-distill is written in Python.

Property Gridsome django-distill
Language JavaScript Python
Templates Vue Django
License MIT MIT

Gridsome benefits

Build blazing fast websites for any CMS or data with Vue.js

How Gridsome work

How Gridsome works

Use local files or any external API as a data source and access the data from a unified GraphQL layer

Connect to any CMS or data source

Use any CMS or data source for content. Pull data from WordPress, Contentful, local Markdown, or any other headless CMS or APIs and access it with GraphQL in your pages and components.

Enjoy a modern development stack

Build websites with modern tools like Vue.js, webpack and Node.js. Get hot-reloading and access to any packages from npm and write CSS in your favorite preprocessor like Sass or Less with autoprefixing.

PWA Offline-first architecture

Only critical HTML, CSS, and JavaScript get loaded first. The next pages are then prefetched so users can click around incredibly fast without page reloads, even when offline.

Get perfect page speed scores

Gridsome automatically optimises your frontend to load and perform blazing fast. You get code-splitting, image optimisation, lazy-loading, and almost perfect lighthouse scores out-of-the-box.

Build future ready websites

The future of the web is JavaScript, API's, and Markup - the JAMstack. Gridsome uses the power of blazing-fast static site generator, JavaScript and APIs to create stunning dynamic web experiences.

Ready for global domination

Gridsome sites are usually not connected to any database and can be hosted entirely on a global CDN. It can handle thousands to millions of hits without breaking - and no expensive server costs.

django-distill benefits

django-distill is a simple to implement static site generator for Django. It is fully compatible with all Django projects and works with existing complex Django applications without interfering. It does not require modifications to existing apps and only small per-URL functions need to be created.

django-distill is designed to integrate with existing Django projects and does not require learning any new framework or file structures to use.

Features

  • Full compatibility with all Django projects
  • No overhead when added to existing projects
  • Trivial to add to existing Django sites
  • Uses the standard Django project structure and does not require learning a new sub-framework
  • Can generate static pages for all or just part of your project
  • Full support for publishing to S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files with remote checks
  • Validation of remote containers on S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files
  • Generation is identical to the output of existing dynamic Django content
  • Simple to implement and debug
  • Only modification required is to urls.py and settings.py
  • Static pages can be generated for third party applications
  • Support for all page and file types (downloads, RSS feeds, JSON objects etc.)