Popular Node.js Static Site Generators – PART 1

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Node.js continues to grow in terms of popularity and as a viable solution for the small and big web applications. Most of the talented developers who create node-based systems replaces some of the old guard software many of us stay aware.

 When it comes to CMS website design services, without any doubt we look for WordPress, prior to Joomla or Drupal. It is one of the active and reliable systems and allow people with little or no technical skills to create a website of their choice.

 Among the static site generator, you will come across Jekyll and Jekyll-based systems, which often the developers favor. Even at our work lab, we go for this option. Among the different static site generators that the developer favor when they look for lightweight generators to create blogs or informational sites.

 In this article, you will get the perfect overview of the three Node.js static site generators for all the JavaScript lovers out there. It comes straight from the Node JS Developers desk of UIPL –

 WINTERSMITH
Wintersmith as claimed is a flexible, multi-platform and minimalistic static site generator built on top of Node.js. Yes, minimalistic is the keyword. It is not for the beginners, but perfectly well synchronized and fine with the intermediate or advanced developers looking to run with the little mess. The approach of Wintersmith is not all about minimal. As coded in CoffeeScript and ships with Jade and Markdown they are all ready to go.

 This is one such static site generator that hosts the API docs on the website. However, uses the GitHub to host the wiki. The information is clear but sparse. It does have a decently active StackOverflow tag and IRC channel.

Assemble is a static site generator that integrates Grunt and Yeoman into their workflow. Assemble helps to get designers and developers on the same page, just like the Punch and DocPad whom you will find in the Part- II of this article. Assemble comes with pre-packaged Handlebars, which is one of the most widely used beginner-friendly templating system available in the web world.

 Assemble generally comes with a plugin system and extends the core functionality of Assemble and not necessarily add front-end frameworks, jQuery plugins, or other JavaScript libraries you might want to use.

Metalsmith since after launch has grabbed the attention with their beautiful and minimal design, because of the following tagline that makes it a simple, pluggable static site generator. As per that the first blurb goes to explain that all of the logic, you can simply chain together. This makes the Metalsmith the most versatile of all systems presented here. With the help of great pluggability comes great repsonsilibty. Metalmsith can be used by a number of intermediate and advanced developers who want a satisfying mix of flexibility and control over their content. Their website offer some of the examples of what kind of content this static site generator can help you with – such as a project scaffolder, eBook generator, build tool, and technical documentation. It is not just to use for blogs or simple websites.

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