Installation

This guide is example-local: it describes how to run and build examples/frameworks/with-vanilla-ejs/. For general Markdown and package behavior, see the main Pagesmith documentation.

Dependencies

Content + build — @pagesmith/site supplies the app-facing content layer, markdown pipeline, Vite plugins, and shared runtime/CSS used by this example. EJS renders templates at SSG time only. Pagefind is a dependency so the SSG plugin can index the generated HTML after vite build.

1{2  "dependencies": {3    "@pagesmith/site": "*",4    "ejs": "^5.0.1",5    "pagefind": "^1.5.0"6  }7}

Quick start

From the monorepo root:

1git clone https://github.com/sujeet-pro/pagesmith.git2cd pagesmith3vp install

Run the dev server for this example:

1vp run dev:eg:vanilla-ejs

Or from this directory:

1cd examples/frameworks/with-vanilla-ejs2npm run dev

Production build (static HTML + Pagefind index):

1cd examples/frameworks/with-vanilla-ejs2npm run build

Output goes to ../../../gh-pages/examples/vanilla-ejs/ as configured in vite.config.ts.

What the Vite plugins do

1. sharedAssetsPlugin — Copies shared assets (for example fonts) from @pagesmith/site into the build output.
2. pagesmithSsg — Dev: SSR middleware calling render() from src/entry-server.tsx. Production: runs getRoutes / render, writes HTML, then runs Pagefind.

This example does not use pagesmithContent virtual modules. The SSR entry imports content.config.mjs and calls createContentLayer() from @pagesmith/site directly so templates stay decoupled from any framework loader.