front-matter vs dirmaker

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Extract YAML front matter from strings (by jxson)

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dirmaker is a simple, opinionated static site generator for quickly publishing directory websites. (by knadh)

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front-matter		dirmaker
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4	Mentions	2
664	Stars	48
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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front-matter

Posts with mentions or reviews of front-matter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.

Creating an SSG (Static Site Generation) Application with Strapi Webhooks and NextJs
4 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2022

To set our metadata dynamically, we also imported the front-matter dependency.
Label automation at your fingertips
5 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2021

front-matter parser
Why I built my own static site generator
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021
Making a Markdown Editor for Your Vue Blog with Front Matter Support
3 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2021

What we want is for our editor to take the combination of front-matter data and markup, then be able to extract the two before storing that data separately somewhere. We'll be using the front-matter module to extract the data we need from the text editor content.

dirmaker

Posts with mentions or reviews of dirmaker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-14.

Why I built my own static site generator
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021

Life isn't complete until one's made their own static site generator! I had to make two directory websites earlier this year and that exercise turned into a static directory site generator - https://github.com/knadh/dirmaker
Show HN: A tiny static site generator for publishing directory websites
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing front-matter and dirmaker you can also consider the following projects:

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

pico - Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

docsify - 🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

marked - A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

htmd - Write Markdown and Jinja2 templates to create a website

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

Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

Phenomic

DocPad - Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft powerful static sites quicker than ever before.

Wintersmith - A flexible static site generator