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Nanoc

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Original author(s)
  
Denis Defreyne

License
  
MIT

Written in
  
Ruby

Website
  
nanoc.ws

Stable release
  
4.2.3 / July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03)

Nanoc is a Ruby-based website compiler that generates static HTML. It supports compiling from various markup languages, including Markdown, Textile, and Haml. It can generate and lay out pages with a consistent look and feel. Nanoc is not a content management system, however it acts somewhat like one.

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Advantages of Nanoc

Nanoc has several advantages over other systems:

  • Modular architecture
  • Generation of static pages
  • Security
  • Versionable source files

    • Differences from traditional content management systems

    Although Nanoc sometimes acts as a content management system (CMS), there are many differences.

  • Traditional CMSs must assemble the webpage every time a user requests it. Static HTML pages are pre-assembled and as such do not have to be re-assembled.
  • CMSs run using a server-side language, which exposes the CMS to all the vulnerabilities of the language. Since Nanoc compiles websites to static HTML, the only vulnerabilities are that of the web server itself.
  • The content managed by a CMS can usually be changed at any time through a web interface. Since Nanoc must recompile the website at every change, it is more difficult to modify a website.

    • References

    Nanoc Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA