# Grain

Static website generator for Groovy with live preview, themes and Markdown, reStructuredText and AsciiDoc support.

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Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/grain/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://sysgears.com/work/grain-framework/
- repository: https://github.com/sysgears/grain
- docs: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/docs/General%20Docs.md
- x: https://twitter.com/grainframework

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: SysGears, LLC
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2013
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: groovy
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: jvm 7
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: download a theme project and run ./grainw, with Grain loaded as a JAR dependency

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2015-08-27

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 162
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 13
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://sysgears.com/work/grain-framework/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/docs/General%20Docs.md (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/NOTICE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://sysgears.com/work/grain-framework/ (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/sysgears/grain/contributors (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

Grain is a static website generator for Groovy. A site is built from a theme project, which is run with `./grainw`, and `./grainw generate` generates the website files. Grain needs no installation of its own, because it loads as a JAR dependency of the theme project. The project's [general documentation](https://github.com/sysgears/grain/blob/master/docs/General%20Docs.md) describes it as an open source static website generator.

## Worth knowing

Deployment runs a shell command set in the configuration. SysGears, the copyright holder named in the repository, offers commercial support.

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