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Wintersmith

Flexible Node.js static site and blog generator

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Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator built on Node.js that turns Markdown content into a static website or blog. Its plugin system allows custom content types and generators.

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Key features

  • Plugin-driven generators
  • Markdown content
  • Jade and Pug templates
  • Static output

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Active community (3.5k GitHub stars)
  • Written in CoffeeScript
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Wintersmith secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Wintersmith's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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