# assemble/assemble

Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at web development! Used by thousands of projects for rapid prototyping, themes, scaffolds, boilerplates, e-books, UI components, API documentation, blogs, building websites/static site generator, an alternative to Jekyll for gh-pages and more! Gulp- and grunt-friendly.

Repository: https://github.com/assemble/assemble
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/assemble
Homepage: http://assemble.io/
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: build, static-site, static-site-generator, templates, scaffold, generator, nodejs, javascript, gulp, grunt, assemble, pwa, html, css, markdown, docs, documentation, md, blog-engine, html-templates
Last push: 2022-02-20T09:16:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5093, "days_push": 1655, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4255, forks 273 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:40.515043+00:00)

## What it is
Assemble is a Node.js command line tool and developer framework for static site generation, rapid prototyping, scaffolding, and building documentation, themes, and boilerplates. It offers a plugin-based API with task, template, and file-system APIs and integrates with Gulp and Grunt workflows.

## Use cases
- generate a static site or blog with node.js
- jekyll alternative for github pages without ruby
- build api documentation from markdown templates
- scaffold project boilerplates and themes
- rapid prototyping of html pages with handlebars layouts
- build ui component libraries and style guides
- integrate static site builds into gulp or grunt pipelines

## When to choose
- you want a Node.js-based static site generator instead of Ruby Jekyll
- you need template-driven scaffolding, docs, or gh-pages builds
- your workflow already uses Gulp or Grunt

## When to avoid
- you need a modern, actively developed generator with a large ecosystem
- you want zero-config static site generation with hot reload out of the box
- you don't want to write an assemblefile.js or task configuration

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, templating, build-tool, cli, documentation
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: static-site, handlebars, gulp, grunt, scaffolding, blog-engine, jekyll-alternative, gh-pages, nodejs

## Member repositories
- assemble/assemble (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.515043+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:08.553532+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/assemble/assemble (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.515043+00:00, sha d9f57eb6d302)
  - homepage: http://assemble.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:47.620190+00:00, sha 72e476f2235b)
  - site_page: https://assemble.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:47.623028+00:00, sha 79556dfc9965)
  - site_page: https://assemble.io/docs/Home.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:47.624934+00:00, sha 3449f76e54f4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.