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24 alternatives to Metalsmith

An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Metalsmith launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator▲174
2014 · metalsmith.io · its alternatives →
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Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python▲146
Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator for Python coders - sunainapai/makesite
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bedrock▲165
A powerful static site generator
2018 · its alternatives →
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Slides 6▲412
Static website generator, create animated websites easily
2022 · designmodo.com · its alternatives →
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Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust▲146
Blazing fast dead simple static site generator
2020 · getblades.org · its alternatives →
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The static, static site generator▲187
Jr. the static, static javascript site generator (you should see this) - xeoncross/jr
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A dead simple static site generator – just two template tags▲94
2014 · tags.brace.io · its alternatives →
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Static▲166
Creating static sites should be super easy, now it is!
2023 · static.devdojo.com · its alternatives →
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Itsy-bitsy static site generator▲8
2014 · itsy-bitsy.org · its alternatives →
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Kinase▲159
A framework for building web scrapers for Chrome
2017 · b12.io · its alternatives →
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Cactus▲30
A fast, easy and free static site generator
2014 · its alternatives →
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A static site generator that prettifies the output HTML▲71
I recently stripped out Django from my personal site and converted it to a static site, using `staticjinja`. I found myself writing a lot of custom code to get my site going because I wanted to use Jinja templating inside Markdown. Once I was done, I decided to strip out `staticjinja` in favour of my own site generator. And so Jinjabread was born!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HastySite – A self-contained static site generator▲6
A minimalist but powerful static site generator
2017 · hastysite.h3rald.com · its alternatives →
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Cory▲3
A static site generator for JavaScript lovers
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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StaticGen▲10
Top open source static site generators
2015 · jamstack.org · its alternatives →
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PicoSSG▲12
Small static site generator, still does everything you need
2025 · picossg.dev · its alternatives →
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A simple static jinja2 site generator▲11
Minimalist Python library for building static websites with Jinja - staticjinja/staticjinja
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Obelix, a simple and extensible static site generator▲8
2020 · obelix-site-builder.github.io · its alternatives →
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Electric – my custom static site generator and markup language▲5
This is the static site generator + markup language that I used for my personal website: https://www.hajeon.xyz/
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ivy▲6
A static website generator built in Python
2018 · its alternatives →
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ultra minimal markdown static site generator▲14
A stupid simple static site generator for markdown - rysolv/markdown_ssg
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Toolsday - Static Site Generators▲3
Static site gens, Jekyll 3.0 breaking things, and templating
2016 · marcoroth.dev · its alternatives →
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Generate static sites in Node with plain JavaScript and HTML▲14
Generate static sites with code. Contribute to chr15m/motionless development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Static Site Generator That Deploys to GitHub Pages▲6
2017 · snazziewebsite.com · its alternatives →

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