JavaScript Static Site Generators

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as Static Site Generators
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Top 6 JavaScript Static Site Generator Projects

  • docsify

    🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

    • Project mention: Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation | dev.to | 2024-04-04

    Docsify is frequently updated; the latest release was on June 24, 2023, and the most recent update was on December 17, 2023. It is MIT-licensed and has an active Discord community.

  • Metalsmith

    An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for Node.js

    • Project mention: Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-03

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Harp

    Static Web Server/Generator/Bundler

  • gray-matter

    Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

    • Project mention: Building a flat-file CMS with Angular | dev.to | 2024-03-05

    Writing in markdown is super convenient, and supported by just about any text editor. To convert these .md files to browser-ready HTML, I wrote a simple little Node.js script using two great npm packages called gray-matter and showdown.

  • front-matter

    Extract YAML front matter from strings

  • Charge

    ⚡️ An opinionated, zero-config static site generator.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024

  • Eleventy vs. Next.js for static site generation

    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2023

  • Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator

    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023

  • Exploring the code behind Docusaurus

    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023

  • Cookbook for SH-Beginners. Any interest? (building one)

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  • Create an Interactive Table of Contents for a Next.js Blog with Remark

    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Static Site Generator projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 docsify 26,826
2 Metalsmith 7,821
3 Harp 4,988
4 gray-matter 3,791
5 front-matter 667
6 Charge 423

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