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Top 7 JavaScript Static Site Generator Projects
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I built a fast, responsive, and lightweight static documentation site powered by Docsify, hosted on AWS S3 with a CloudFront CDN for global distribution. The entire infrastructure is managed using Pulumi YAML, allowing me to declaratively define and deploy resources without writing any imperative code.
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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
Next is shifting towards what they're calling App Router. The previous itteration, known as Pages Router is not compatible with those shiny new React Server Components I mentioned earlier. The main difference to me was using simple fetch and async/await syntax to fetch the server side props. In this case, I had a node script that relied on fs to retrieve the markdown files and a library called gray-matter to retrieve their YAML metadata properties. Then all I had to do was transform my [slug] page into an async function and call the function that fetched the posts from the filesystem.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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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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Index
What are some of the best open-source Static Site Generator projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | docsify | 29,329 |
| 2 | Metalsmith | 7,850 |
| 3 | Harp | 4,997 |
| 4 | gray-matter | 4,096 |
| 5 | front-matter | 686 |
| 6 | Charge | 428 |
| 7 | linkyee | 37 |
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