🆚 Gatsby vs. mdBook

Gatsby is an open-source static site generator built on React and Node.js that creates fast pre-rendered websites.

It supports React components, includes built-in image optimization and lazy loading, offers more than 3,000 plugins for SEO, analytics and CMS support, and integrates a GraphQL data layer to pull content from headless CMS or APIs.

mdBook is a Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides.

It provides built-in search, color syntax highlighting via Highlight.js, multilingual books, theme customization, preprocessors and renderer plugins, automatic table of contents generation, and automated testing of Rust code samples.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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