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nuxt vs marmite
nuxt has 61,025 GitHub stars, 5,839 forks, 480 open issues and last shipped yesterday. marmite has 887 stars, 57 forks, 6 open issues and last shipped 10 days ago. nuxt leads on adoption by 6,780% (61,025 vs 887 stars). nuxt is written in TypeScript under MIT; marmite is written in Rust under AGPL-3.0. nuxt has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, marmite 6%. nuxt was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (hacktoberfest, ssg), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| nuxt | marmite | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 61K | ★ 887 |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-24 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.8K | ⑂ 57 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick nuxt if
- You weight community size — 61K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick marmite if
- You want the marmite feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and marmite fits your workflow better
About nuxt
Nuxt Nuxt is a free and open source framework with an intuitive and extendable way to create type safe, performant and production grade full stack web applications and websites with Vue.js. It provides a number of features that make it easy to build fast, SEO friendly, and scalable web applications, including: Server side rendering, static site generation, hybrid rendering and edge side rendering Automatic routing with code splitting and pre fetching Data fetching and state management Search engine optimization and defining meta tags Auto imports of components, composables and utils TypeScript with zero…
About marmite
Marmite Marmite [ Mar kdown m akes s ite s] is a very! simple static site generator. I'm a big user of other SSGs but it is frequently frustrating that it takes so much setup to get started. Just having a directory of markdown files and running a single command sounds really useful. — Michael, marmite user. How it works It does "one" simple thing only: Reads all .md files on the input directory. Using CommonMark parse it to HTML content. Extract optional metadata from frontmatter or filename . Generated html file for each page. Outputs the rendered static site to the output folder. It also handles…
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Frequently asked questions
Is nuxt or marmite more popular?
nuxt has 61,025 GitHub stars and marmite has 887. nuxt has the larger community by that measure.
Are nuxt and marmite free?
Both are open source. nuxt is licensed under MIT and marmite under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between nuxt and marmite?
nuxt is written in TypeScript and marmite in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, nuxt or marmite?
Choose nuxt if you want the larger community (61,025 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose marmite if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.