metalsmith-all-the-things

all the things

Everyone loves metalsmith's agnostic, dogma free approach to static sites... but it's still nice to see some examples, so this is mine.

features

• webpack - I'm pretty stoked with my webpack implementation. metalsmith-webpack caches webpack output which dramatically cuts down on build time.
• browser-sync - take a look at ./sync.js, it's a super minimal implementation that just works. browser-sync takes care of live reloading & dev server
• naked urls - (urls like domain.com/article-name without the .html) this is achieved using mimeTypes rather than the hacky everything-in-a-separate-directory approach.
• s3 - custom upload to s3 implementation
• babel - scandalous babel-node usage.. cuts down on crufty build & watch scripts
• google-drive - scrape content from google drive folders to include in your build. Think of it as a poor mans CMS, free ubiquitous access for editing content.
• cloudinary - upload images to cloudinary, then format them as required in your layouts & markdown. This means no local dependencies on imagemagick and friends.

documentation

There's more detailed information about implementation of different features in /src/articles.

usage

git clone git@github.com:leviwheatcroft/metalsmith-all-the-things.git matt
cd matt
npm i
npm run dev

boulevard of broken dreams

There's a few dependencies which are not yet available on npm. You can install them directly from github. See src/articles/rogue-packages.md for details.

license

MIT

author

Levi Wheatcroft levi@wht.cr