Awesome Metalsmith
August 10, 2025 · View on GitHub
A curated list of awesome Metalsmith resources.
Inspired by the endless "awesome-*" lists out there.
For the latest news check the Metalsmith X account
Metalsmith at Stackoverflow
Community Tutorials/Blogposts
Building a MCP Server for developing a Metalsmith plugin
- MCP Server Development - Integrating Claude AI with Metalsmith, Part 2, 2025
- MCP Server Development - Integrating Claude AI with Metalsmith, 2025
Blogpost series about modern Metalsmith site building on 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Introducing the Structured Content Starter, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Beyond Markdown, 2025
- Introducing my Metalsmith Plugin Template, 2025
- Beyond Markdown - Adding Structured Components with Metalsmith MD, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Templating with Nunjucks, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: The Build Pipeline, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Dependencies and Scripts, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Starter Files Structure, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Getting Started, 2025
- Metalsmith Redux: Static Site Generation in 2025, 2025
Using a headless Wordpress CMS as the content source for Metalsmith
- Minneapolis - building the WordPress source plugin for Metalsmith, 2023
- Minneapolis - getting the content from WordPress, 2023
- Minneapolis - building a WordPress page section, 2023
- Minneapolis - the WordPress setup, 2023
- Minneapolis - the project outline, 2023
- Minneapolis - using WordPress as a headless CMS for Metalsmith, 2023
Using Sanity CMS as the content source for Metalsmith
- Ruhrpott - Sanity studio setup, 2023
- Ruhrpott - a Metalsmith Sanity source plugin, 2022
- Ruhrpott - structured content from Sanity, /2022
- Ruhrpott - it starts with Metalsmith, 2022
- Ruhrpott - Building a website with Metalsmith and Sanity.io, 2022
Recent
- Introducing Metalsmith MDN, 2024
- Building a Section Component with Leaflet Maps for Metalsmith, 2023
- Introducing Metalsmith First and ms-start, 2023
- Making a Metalsmith Website Behave Like a Single-Page App, 2023
- Building a badges section with Metalsmith and Nunjucks, 2022
- Building flexible page layouts for Metalsmith, 2022
- Building a responsive/progressive image component, 2022
- How Static Site Generators Work with Contentful, 2021
- Test-driving Metalsmith for a simple dev blog, 2021
- Remove Unused Assets in Metalsmith, 2020
- Using Relative Links in Metalsmith, 2020
- Minify Files in Metalsmith, 2020
- Adding a Favicon in Metalsmith, 2020
- Adding a Sitemap in Metalsmith, 2020
Prior to 2020
- Adding a Google Site Ownership Verification File in Metalsmith, 2019
- Linting Metalsmith Output HTML, 2019
- Metalsmith, Layouts and Nunjucks, 2018
- Migrating 'End of Line' blog from Rails to NodeJS and Metalsmith, 2018
- Metalsmith static blog with realtime comment features, 2017
- Switching from Jekyll to Metalsmith - Post Mortem, 2017
- 5 Reasons to Choose Metalsmith, 2017
- Adding Comments to Metalsmith, 2017
- Building a Blog with Metalsmith, 2017
- My Journey to Metalsmith, 2017
- Build a Static Blog using MetalSmith, 2017
- Creating a Metalsmith static site powered by node.js, 2017
- A Beginner's Guide to Crafting a Blog with Metalsmith, 2016
- How to Create a Static Site with Metalsmith, 2016
- An Intro To Metalsmith, 2016
- Goodbye Jekyll, Hello Metalsmith!, 2016
- Building Technical Documentation with Metalsmith, 2015
- Mastering metalsmith: best practices for static sites, 2015
- Building a blog with Metalsmith, 2015
- Metalsmith on GitHub Pages, 2014
- Way of Metalsmith, 2014
- Rebuilding Keetology, 2014
- Building a Blog with Metalsmith, 2014
- Getting To Know Metalsmith, 2014
Building Plugins
- Introducing Metalsmith MDN, 2024
- Building a Modern HTML Optimizer for Metalsmith, 11/20/2024
- Creating a Metalsmith Tab Plugin, 08/09/2014
- metalsmith-polyglot, 11/15/2015
Community Starters
- Metasmith2025 Structured Content Starter
- Metalsmith2025 Simple Starter
- Metalsmith bare-bones starter
- Metalsmith blog starter
- Metalsmith company starter
- Metalsmith-base, A base starter for a Metalsmith project used at Evocode.com
Community Plugins
- Inofficial list of plugin links - Automatically updated with health indicators
- Plugins featured on Metalsmith.io If you want to add yours, submit a pull request!
- GitHub query for "metalsmith
🔧 Maintainers: Plugin Health Check
To help keep the plugin list current and accurate, this repository includes a health checker script that can be run locally. Any maintainer can run it:
- Fork this repository
- Install dependencies:
npm install - Authenticate with GitHub CLI:
gh auth login - Run the health check:
npm run update - Review and submit the PR
Cross-platform support: Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The script analyzes all plugins for:
Health Analysis:
- Recent commit activity
- npm download statistics
- Issue responsiveness
- Overall maintenance status
Security Analysis:
- Known security vulnerabilities
- Outdated and deprecated dependencies
- Pre-1.0 version packages
- Legacy build tools
Indicators:
- Health: 🟢 Up-to-date | 🟡 Needing attention | 🔴 Uncertain | 📁 Archived
- Security: ⚠️ Security concerns | 📦 Outdated dependencies
For more details, see PLUGIN_HEALTH_CHECKER.md.
Generator
Used by
- NodeJS website
- Moleculer (microservice framework for Node)(CLI
- DooringX (D&D software development app) CLI
- Leo generator package (cross-dept template scaffolder)
- Vue CLI until v2 (later replaced with vuepress)
Listings
- Top 20 Static Site Generators Of 2022
- 10 Most Popular Static Site Generators in 2021
- Metalsmith on libhunt
Examples
Blogs
Websites
- MS Start
- Ines Tancre - Artist
- Ruhrpott
- Minneapolis
- Metalsmith Components
- Revermont.bike (or on GitHub)
- docs.kuzzle.io (or on GitHub)
ops-class.orgInstructional Website (or on GitHub)- Loma Communications
- Goetz & Eckland
- Werner Glinka - Artist
Want to add or edit something? Submit a pull request!