Wintersmith vs front-matter

Wintersmith

A flexible static site generator (by jnordberg)

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front-matter

Extract YAML front matter from strings (by jxson)

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Wintersmith		front-matter
	Project
2	Mentions	4
3,497	Stars	663
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
CoffeeScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Wintersmith

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wintersmith. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.

Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Assemble - Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at web development! Used by thousands of projects for rapid prototyping, themes, scaffolds, boilerplates, e-books, UI components, API documentation, blogs, building websites/static site generator, an alternative to Jekyll for gh-pages and more! Gulp- and grunt-friendly.

docsify - 🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

Phenomic

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

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.

Charge - ⚡️ An opinionated, zero-config static site generator.