# jnordberg/wintersmith

A flexible static site generator

Repository: https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wintersmith
Homepage: http://wintersmith.io/
Language: CoffeeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: static-site-generator, nodejs, wintersmith
Last push: 2021-07-15T14:10:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5326, "days_push": 1875, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3478, forks 321 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:06.199940+00:00)

## What it is
Wintersmith is a flexible static site generator for Node.js that transforms content like markdown and templates like pug into a static website via a plugin system. It ships as a CLI with scaffolding, a live preview server, and a build command.

## Use cases
- generate a static blog from markdown files
- build a documentation site with pug templates
- preview a static site locally while editing
- extend a static site generator with custom plugins
- host a simple website without a backend

## When to choose
- you want a plugin-driven Node.js static site generator with markdown and pug support
- you prefer a simple content-tree model and full control over rendering
- you want a built-in preview server and site scaffolding

## When to avoid
- you need an actively developed tool with recent releases
- you prefer a JavaScript-based generator over CoffeeScript-era code
- you need built-in features like i18n or image pipelines without writing plugins

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, templating, markdown, cli, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: coffeescript, pug, preview-server, content-tree, npm, static-site-generator, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jnordberg/wintersmith (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.199940+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 2026-08-29T18:36:30.351244+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.199940+00:00, sha e0d9c7415041)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/wintersmith (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:40.458978+00:00, sha 7778fa3a5a77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.