Metalsmith
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CommentsWhat is Metalsmith?
In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files.
Metalsmith is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Read template files from a directoryParse files for template placeholdersPrompt user to fill in each placeholderRender files with aytemplating engineWrite filled-in files to a new directory
Metalsmith Pros & Cons
Pros of Metalsmith
- ✓Plugability
- ✓Easy to install, easy to hack, easy to deploy
- ✓Really works hard to be simple
- ✓Build any kind of website
- ✓Chain plugins like a file processing pipe
- ✓CI: push to github, auto-deploy to netlifly (free)
- ✓Use any templating engine
Cons of Metalsmith
No cons listed yet.
Metalsmith Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Metalsmith?
Gatsby
Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
