Assemble

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Assemble is ranked #33 of 35 in static site generators on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux. There is a free plan.

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Assemble Free No price or usage limits stated assemble.io · 7 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Content sources: markdown
CMS integration: No
Incremental builds: No
Multilingual support: No
Local preview server: No
Supported languages: JavaScript, Node.js

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Product: Assemble is a static site generator for Grunt.js, Yeoman and Node.js.
Use cases: The maker lists building sites, themes, components, documentation, blogs and GitHub Pages among Assemble’s uses.
Template rendering: Assemble supports Handlebars by default and documents using other template engines.
Page building: Assemble supports layouts, partials, page collections, pagination and permalinks.
Data sources: JSON and YAML data can be used to populate rendered templates.
Helpers: Assemble’s options documentation says it uses an external library with more than 100 Handlebars helpers.
Plugins: The project documentation describes support for Gulp and Base plugins.
Project flexibility: The maker says projects can put layouts, pages and partials wherever they want instead of following required folder names.
Installation requirement: The Assemble plugin installation page says it requires Grunt ~0.4.1 and gives `npm install assemble --save-dev` as the install command.
License: The maker’s Grunt Assemble repository says it is released under the MIT license.
Created by: The maker says Assemble was created by Jon Schlinkert and Brian Woodward.
What it does: The project describes Assemble as a command line tool and developer framework for rapid prototyping and static site generation.
Templates: Assemble supports templates rendered with multiple engines, including Nunjucks, Handlebars and Lodash.
Content structure: Its documented view types are partial, layout and renderable, and it supports pages, includes, layouts and pagination.
Price from: Free

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Sources

assemble.io· checked 7 Oct 2026
assemble.io/docs/Options.html· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/assemble/assemble/blob/master/.verb.md· checked 7 Oct 2026
assemble.io/docs/About.html· checked 7 Oct 2026
assemble.io/docs/Installation.html· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/assemble/grunt-assemble· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/assemble/assemble· checked 7 Oct 2026