I'm pretty happy with Hugo+Netlify, but I've never tried Jekyll.
Pros:
- TOML syntax for Frontmatter data in markdown content
- The `data` folder which can contain JSON, TOML, CSV, and YAML
- The layout system, once you get used to it is pretty straightforward
Cons:
- Go templating, I wish I had Jinja2 or the Django engine
- Partials can't be used as shortcodes and vice-versa, this makes reusability tricky
- URLs not ending with / use a redirection to the trailing / URL, which is not SEO friendly
NB:
- I'm not using the pipeline system for assets, I use sass (scss) and lunr.js (search engine) separately to generate files in the `static` folder
- For reusability, I'm using a homemade lib[0] to build web components
- I've found themes and archetypes to be pretty useless
I've tried to setup Netlify CMS to allow a non-technical user to update the content of the website. But the experience was atrocious. It's still nowhere near a Wordpress. Which is pretty important if you want to put your "marketing website" in the hands of sales people.
Pros:
Cons: NB: I've tried to setup Netlify CMS to allow a non-technical user to update the content of the website. But the experience was atrocious. It's still nowhere near a Wordpress. Which is pretty important if you want to put your "marketing website" in the hands of sales people.