Metalsmith
Extremely simple pluggable static site generator
Metalsmith is a static site generator that treats every site as a series of plugins manipulating files, making it suitable for blogs, project pages, and documentation. All functionality, including Markdown rendering and templating, is provided by plugins.
Key features
- Everything is a plugin
- Pipeline architecture
- Markdown and templating plugins
- Static output
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Mature project with 7.8k GitHub stars
- Written in JavaScript
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
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