thumbsup vs Docsify

thumbsup and Docsify are both open source static site generators written in JavaScript, but that's where the similarities end. See the full comparison of thumbsup and Docsify.

Property thumbsup Docsify
Language JavaScript JavaScript
Templates None Markdown, Vue
License MIT MIT

thumbsup benefits

Static web galleries for all your photos and videos

Give thumbsup a folder full of photos and videos, and it will build HTML galleries to view them. It takes care of resizing photos, creating thumbnails, re-encoding videos to a web-friendly format, and more...

Highlights

  • Get started in seconds

Create a whole gallery from a single command. If you have more time, pick a theme, configure your styles, or change the config settings to control how albums are created.

  • Fast

Thumbsup keeps track of which photos are new and only rebuilds what's necessary. If everything is up to date, running thumbsup on a 50GB folder only takes a few seconds.

  • Mobile friendly

The generated website can be viewed on any device - including videos. Have a look for yourself at the demo site.

  • Cross-platform

Available as an npm module or a Docker image, it works on macOS, Linux and Windows. Thumbsup it built upon well established tools like ffmpeg.

  • Deploy anywhere

The generated galleries are fully static and self contained. Browse them from your computer, or upload them to AWS S3 for the world to see.

Examples

Mosaic albums Mosaic media

Docsify benefits

docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as a website.

Simple and lightweight (~21kB gzipped) No statically built html files Multiple themes