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.
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