Awesome Metalsmith

A curated list of awesome Metalsmith resources.

Inspired by the endless "awesome-*" lists out there.

• Official Community driven Docs

Tutorials/Blogposts

• Building flexible page layouts for Metalsmith, 03/18/2022
• Building a responsive/progressive image component, 03/10/2022
• How Static Site Generators Work with Contentful, 17/12/2021
• Metalsmith, Layouts and Nunjucks, 06/18/2018
• Switching from Jekyll to Metalsmith - Post Mortem, 05/14/2017
• Setting up the Forge (1/3), 04/14/2014
• Shaping the Metal (2/3), 04/18/2014
• Refining our Tools (3/3), 04/29/2014
• Building a Blog with Metalsmith (blakeembrey), 09/2014
• Metalsmith on GitHub Pages, 09/05/2014
• Way of Metalsmith, 09/09/2014
• Rebuilding Keetology, 10/21/2014
• Building a Blog with Metalsmith (azurelogic), 03/30/2015
• Building a Blog with Metalsmith (okaythree), 03/12/2015
• Introduction to Metalsmith, 08/12/2015
• Creating Static Sites with Metalsmith, 09/18/2015
• Using Node and Metalsmith, 10/04/2015
• Building Technical Documentation with Metalsmith, 10/20/2015
• Mastering metalsmith: best practices for static sites, 11/4/2015
• Rebuilding davidosomething.com as a static site, 12/28/2015
• A Beginner's Guide to Crafting a Blog with Metalsmith, 09/30/2016
• How to Create a Static Site with Metalsmith, 21/04/2016
• 5 Reasons to Choose Metalsmith, 19/01/2017
• Adding Comments to Metalsmith, 30/01/2017

Building Plugins

• Creating a Metalsmith Tab Plugin, 08/09/2014
• metalsmith-polyglot, 11/15/2015

Starters

• Metalsmith bare-bones starter
• Metalsmith blog starter
• Metalsmith company starter
• Metalsmith-base, A base starter for a Metalsmith project used at Evocode.com

Plugins

Here is the GitHub query for "metalsmith".

Here is a list of plugin links.

Here are the plugins featured on the Metalsmith.io website. If you want to add yours, submit a pull request!

Generator

• generator-metalsmith

Used by

• NodeJS website
• Moleculer (microservice framework for Node)(CLI
• DooringX (D&D software development app) CLI
• Leo generator package (cross-dept template scaffolder)
• Vue CLI until v2 (later replaced with vuepress)

Listings

• Top 20 Static Site Generators Of 2022
• 10 Most Popular Static Site Generators in 2021
• Metalsmith on libhunt

Examples

Blogs

• mrkiffie.com (or on GitHub)
• damien.pobel.fr (or on GitHub
• Werner Glinka
• Christian Emmer

Site

• Revermont.bike (or on GitHub)
• docs.kuzzle.io (or on GitHub)
• ops-class.org Instructional Website (or on GitHub)

Want to add or edit something? Submit a pull request!