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Metalsmith reviews and mentions

• Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
• Top ten popular static site generators (SSG) in 2023
  8 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2023

  Metalsmith — the best customizable SSG

• who is self-hosting a static website and what are you using to build it?
  8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 Jun 2022

  I use Metalsmith. Been happy with it. I build my site into a self-contained nginx docker image.

• Configuration error even if nothing changed since last successful deploy
  1 project | /r/webdev | 3 Jun 2022

  const Metalsmith = require('metalsmith') const markdown = require('@metalsmith/markdown') const layouts = require('metalsmith-layouts') const permalinks = require('@metalsmith/permalinks') const collections = require('metalsmith-collections') Metalsmith(__dirname) .metadata({ sitename: 'Website Name', description: "Website description.", generator: 'Metalsmith', url: 'https://metalsmith.io/' }) .source('./src') .destination('./build') // .clean(true) .use( collections({ projects: 'pages/*.md', reverse: true, refer: true }) ) .use(markdown()) .use(permalinks()) .use( layouts({ engineOptions: { helpers: { formattedDate: function (date) { return new Date(date).toLocaleDateString() } } } }) ) .build(function (err, files) { if (err) throw err })

• Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site
  87 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2022

  I also started to move to hugo, but they didn't merge the pr [2] which would have helped in the transition. :(

  The look is still similar to what it was in the beginning, in terms of colors at least.

  [1] https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith

• SSGs through the ages: The ‘Reinvention’ era
  11 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2022

  Metalsmith

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

  A static site generator I've been enjoying lately (and using for my blog) is Metalsmith: https://metalsmith.io/

  It feel like it's the best of both worlds, because it's simple to learn and customize, but there are plugins for the things you don't want to spend time writing yourself.

  For example, I'm using plugins to: check for broken links, generate an RSS feed, and run a test server with automatic reloading.

  But then I was able to easily add in my own code to handle relative links, generate Graphviz diagrams, and format dates.

  One other recommendation: I hated almost every template language I ran across (Hugo's, Liquid, Nunjucks, EJS), but I'm thrilled with the simplicity of Handlebars (https://handlebarsjs.com/), although it is a bit limiting and the "block helper with parameters" syntax is strange (perhaps an indicator that I'm trying to do too much in the templating language!).

• Zola, A fast static site generator in a single binary
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2021

  I believe Metalsmith [1] is trying that approach

  [1] https://metalsmith.io/

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