Re:Hugo vs. Jekyll: Benchmarked
by musikele on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:36AM
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I think the build time is the least factor to take in consideration.
I choose Jekyll some time ago because:
- it was supported by github
- the plain website generated was much FASTER than anything with a database (WP I'm talking at you)
- as a developer I could mess with HTML and JS wasily
Build time is important at development time, when I'm programming some new feature, and I have to wait 1-2 seconds before refreshing the page. If those changes take 20 seconds, well, that's a horrible development experience.
So, for now, I'll definitely give Hugo a try (didn't even know) but we do websites for people and we should only care that the website is fast, nice and easy for them.
Re:Hugo vs. Jekyll: Benchmarked
by sgallant on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:32AM
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I 100% agree that there are many factors to take into account. Liquid templating is a huge benefit of Jekyll, for example. This article was just looking at build times and we'll put another one out soon looking at other factors.
Build time is important at development time, when I'm programming some new feature, and I have to wait 1-2 seconds before refreshing the page. If those changes take 20 seconds, well, that's a horrible development experience.
So, for now, I'll definitely give Hugo a try (didn't even know) but we do websites for people and we should only care that the website is fast, nice and easy for them.