Why Blue
You will find here what value does Blue brings to the tools it competes with or it is made with
Silex vs Blue
Blue is a distribution of Silex, preconfigured with
- directus.io or squidex.io headless CMS
- 11ty.dev as a builder
- liquid.js as a template language
- Programmable severless functions (lambda) and hooks
- Local font server to proxy google font
Added features
- Access your website source code via git, deploy on push
- Per website version of each tool
Blue vs webflow
Both have
- Designer
- Style manager
- CSS classes to reuse styles
- CMS, design with the real data
- Data model builder
- Flows for automation
- Extensive documentation
- Multilingual websites
- E-commerce
- AI for helping with copywriting
- Fake data generator
- Translation and i18n internationalization
Only in Webflow
- Team collaboration
- Marketplace
- Impressive exhaustive documentation with lots of videos
- Many quality templates
Only in Blue
- Built-in code editor
- Host your website anywhere, easy built-in deployment
- Web standards, no lock-in: you have access to your site source code, your website is a standard 11ty static website. Everything you learn here will be useful webdesign skills
- Own your data, backup, use version control, delete it forever…
- Desktop version
- Awesome performance as the sites are static / JAMStack
- Developer friendly: nothing more than standard open souce tools (static site, headless cms), access your website source code via git, deploy on push