Static Site Generators

Assemble – rapid prototyping and static site generation

Assemble is a command line tool and developer framework for rapid prototyping, static site generation, landing pages, A/B testing, blogs, style guides, themes, and UI components.

It can also be used as a build tool, documentation, generate boilerplates, and e-books.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Expressive, functional API (the API is also stable).
  • Use assemble with any web framework or CSS/HTML toolkit.
  • Build static sites or hybrid static/dynamic sites.
  • Streams support, you can run any gulp plugin.
  • Powerful features for rapid web development, including a robust API for rendering templates with any node.js template engine.
  • Like gulp, assemble can also run any other static site generator as a plugin, which means you can do anything and everything all other node.js static site generators can do, and much more.
  • Intuitive CLI.
  • Full support for gulp and base plugins.
  • Assemble templates are vinyl files.
  • Render templates with any template engine, including nunjucks, handlebars, lodash and any consolidate engine.
  • Use multiple engines, assemble can detect the one to use based on file extension
    helpers: support for sync and async.
  • Templates collections.
  • Pages.
  • Partials/includes.
  • Layouts.
  • Pagination.
  • Permalinks.
  • Middleware can be used to transform files at any stage in the render cycle.
  • Generate pages from JSON.

Website: assemble.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Jon Schlinkert, Brian Woodward
License: MIT License

Assemble is written in JavaScript Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


Related Software

JavaScript Static Site Generators
Next.jsMinimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications
GatsbyReact-based open source framework for creating websites and apps
EleventyTransforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML
HexoFast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js
AstroWebsite build tool for the modern web
DocusaurusBuild, deploy and maintain documentation websites
GitBookPublish beautiful docs for your users
VuePressMinimalistic Vue-powered static site generator
MetalsmithSimple, pluggable static site generator
DocsifyDocumentation site generator
React StaticProgressive static-site generator for React
GridsomeJamstack framework for Vue.js
CuttlebelleReact static site generator
AssembleRapid prototyping and static site generation
PaniniSuper simple flat file generator for use with Gulp
constexprjsStic site generator without a DSL or a templating language

Read our verdict in the software roundup.


Best Free and Open Source Software Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.

This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk.

You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more.

Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form.
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments