Top 6 JavaScript Static Site Generator Projects

docsify

29 26,561 8.2 JavaScript

🃏 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

8 7,822 7.1 JavaScript

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

surveyjs.io sponsored

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.
Harp

3 4,988 0.0 JavaScript

Static Web Server/Generator/Bundler
gray-matter

17 3,762 1.2 JavaScript

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

4 663 0.0 JavaScript

Extract YAML front matter from strings
Charge

0 423 0.0 JavaScript

⚡️ 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).