# Blacksmith

Node.js static site generator that renders Markdown content into HTML pages through layouts and partials.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/blacksmith/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith
- docs: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Nodejitsu Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2012
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: plates
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2012-12-12

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 551
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 8
- contributors: 32
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 6
- dependentPackages: 1

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/flatiron/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/flatiron/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- runtime: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/package.json (read 2026-10-22)
- templating: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- contentStore: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/blacksmith/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/flatiron/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/flatiron/blacksmith/contributors?anon=true&per_page=100 (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/blacksmith (read 2026-10-22)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/blacksmith (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/blacksmith (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Blacksmith is a Node.js static site generator that renders Markdown content into HTML pages. All rendered HTML is written to a public folder. Partials are rendered with Plates, and content is read from Markdown files with Marked.

It is installed with npm.

## Worth knowing

The README marks the layout JSON properties as not yet supported, and its roadmap lists an RSS feed and nested partials as open items.

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