# docpad/docpad

Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft powerful static sites quicker than ever before.

Repository: https://github.com/docpad/docpad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/docpad
Homepage: https://docpad.bevry.me
Language: CoffeeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: docpad, coffeescript, static-site-generator, preprocessor, template-engine, node, app, docpad-core
Last push: 2024-02-11T13:53:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5649, "days_push": 934, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3044, forks 234 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:39.417215+00:00)

## What it is
DocPad is a Node.js static site generator offering layouts, metadata, pre-processors (Markdown, Jade, CoffeeScript), partials, file watching, and a plugin system. It was a pioneering static site generator for Node.js but is now officially archived and considered historical.

## Use cases
- generate a static website from markdown files
- build a blog with layouts and partials
- preprocess coffeescript and jade into a static site
- create a documentation site with templates
- watch and rebuild a website during development

## When to choose
- maintaining an existing legacy DocPad site
- you specifically need DocPad's plugin ecosystem for an old project

## When to avoid
- starting a new static site project
- you need actively maintained tooling
- you need dynamic server-rendered features
- you want modern alternatives like Next.js, Astro, or Eleventy

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, templating, cli, plugin-system, markdown
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, documentation
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: static-site-generator, coffeescript, preprocessor, template-engine, file-watching, layouts, partials, nodejs

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.417215+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 2026-08-30T07:29:04.149207+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/docpad/docpad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.417215+00:00, sha f22f658dd6c4)
  - homepage: https://docpad.bevry.me (fetched 2026-08-29T09:44:29.732465+00:00, sha 63263b3353b0)
  - site_page: https://docpad.bevry.me/start/install (fetched 2026-08-29T09:44:29.735331+00:00, sha 7623a46d323c)
  - site_page: https://docpad.bevry.me/start/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T09:44:29.737144+00:00, sha 6a3484879148)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.