# Nanogen

Static site generator in Node.js that builds HTML pages from EJS and Markdown files.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nanogen/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-21

## Record

### Links

- home: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen
- repository: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen
- docs: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Douglas Matoso
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 20
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

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

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: npm i -g nanogen

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-01-21

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 204
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1
- contributors: 7
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 26
- dependentPackages: 4

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- urls: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/ (read 2026-10-21)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- maintainer: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-21)
- category: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen/languages (read 2026-10-21)
- runtime: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- runtimeMin: https://registry.npmjs.org/nanogen/latest (read 2026-10-21)
- installMethod: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- installMethod: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- runsAs: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/ (read 2026-10-21)
- runsAs: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/ (read 2026-10-21)
- renderingModes: https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/ (read 2026-10-21)
- templating: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- license: https://github.com/doug2k1/nanogen/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-21)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/nanogen/latest (read 2026-10-21)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen/releases/latest (read 2026-10-21)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/doug2k1/nanogen/contributors?per_page=1&anon=true (read 2026-10-21)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/nanogen (read 2026-10-21)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/nanogen (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/nanogen (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Nanogen is a Node.js command line tool that turns a folder of EJS, Markdown and HTML pages into a static website. Pages are combined with EJS layouts and partials, and each source file becomes an `index.html` in a folder of its own name. Site-wide data comes from a configuration file, and each page can carry its own YAML front matter.

The [documentation](https://doug2k1.github.io/nanogen/docs/) describes a development server that rebuilds the site on every change. The output folder is cleaned and regenerated on each build, so nothing should be placed there by hand.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0