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Metalsmith

An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator
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What 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 Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
Metalsmith is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Metalsmith's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Metalsmith?

Companies
8 companies reportedly use Metalsmith in their tech stacks, including DroneDeploy, Hacker Experience, and WorldGaming.

Developers
40 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Metalsmith.

Metalsmith Integrations

Pros of Metalsmith
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Plugability
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Easy to install, easy to hack, easy to deploy
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Really works hard to be simple
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Chain plugins like a file processing pipe
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CI: push to github, auto-deploy to netlifly (free)
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Build any kind of website
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Use any templating engine

Metalsmith's Features

  • Read template files from a directory
  • Parse files for template placeholders
  • Prompt user to fill in each placeholder
  • Render files with aytemplating engine
  • Write filled-in files to a new directory

Metalsmith Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Metalsmith?
Wintersmith
Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator. It takes contents (markdown, less, scripts, etc), transforms them using plugins and outputs a static website (html, css, images, etc) that you can host anywhere.
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.
11ty
A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML. Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.
Hexo
Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.
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Metalsmith's Followers
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