Nuxt vs Gulp Site

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

Property Nuxt Gulp Site
Language JavaScript JavaScript
Templates Vue Handlebars
License MIT ISC

Nuxt benefits

An easy way to export your Vue.js Web Application into a static website.

Easy to use

Write your content in Vue files only. No configuration is needed, just write your Application with Vue.js components.

Customisable

If you want to write you content in markdown files, its super easy with the vue markdown filter

You can extend your Application, Blog or Website with some packages on the NPM ecosystem.

Nuxt will help you generate and deploy a Vue.js Web Application faster than before.

Static and dynamic

Vue SSR is used to generate pages for both client and server; It's called Isomorphic/ Universal rendering.

Then you can run nuxt generate to generate your static website into a ./dist forlder and deploy it everywhere: Netlify, Githup pages, Gitlab, AWS3, etc.

Setup a project in a minute

Creating a website based on Nuxt only takes a minute. Quick introduction of Nuxt : 1 minute

Gulp Site benefits

This is a simple static site generator which is perfect for a personal, blog or documentation site.

It is similar to other static site generators in that it takes your Markdown content, renders it, optimises it and creates a production-ready site that can be served by Nginx, Apache or another web server.

Features

  • Convert Markdown files to static HTML
  • Handlebars templates and partials
  • Sass compiling and minification
  • Css reducing (Uncss)
  • Javascript concatenating and minification
  • Asset copying
  • Image compression
  • HTML compression
  • RSS feed creation
  • Server for viewing built site
  • Clobber for cleaning build directory
  • Save content as draft
  • Convert draft templates
  • Creates a build/ directory with built content and assets