# Install blades with Homebrew, MacPorts

Blazing fast dead simple static site generator. Version 0.6.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install blades.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:blades
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install blades
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install blades
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: www/blades/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:blades
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **Source summary:** Blazing fast dead simple static site generator
- **Homepage:** <https://www.getblades.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/grego/blades>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- blades (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.0
## Project history and usage

Blades is a Rust static site generator focused on speed, simple configuration, and minimal moving parts. It packages as a single CLI for generating HTML from content and templates.

### Project history

The repository was created in 2020 and the crate was published on crates.io the same year. The README describes Blades as a 'blazing fast dead simple static site generator' using zero-copy deserialization and the Ramhorns templating engine.

### Adoption history

Blades is distributed through crates.io, Homebrew, and MacPorts. Its adoption is modest but clear enough for packaging: a small Rust SSG with official docs at getblades.org and a package-manager footprint beyond Cargo.

### How it is used

Users run blades init to create a site, then build, all, lazy, colocate, or new to generate pages and assets. The project configuration is Blades.toml, and docs cover themes, templates, plugins, taxonomies, feeds, sitemaps, and asset colocation.

### Why package nerds care

Blades is interesting to package nerds as part of the Rust static-site-generator wave: small native binaries competing with older ecosystems on startup time and simple deployment. Its 'one job' positioning contrasts with larger generators that bundle watchers, asset pipelines, or language-specific plugin stacks.

### Timeline

- 2020: Blades repository is created on GitHub.
- 2020: Blades crate is published on crates.io.
- 2020s: Blades is packaged for Homebrew and MacPorts.
- 2020s: Official docs at getblades.org document configuration, themes, plugins, and content workflows.

### Related projects

- The README compares Blades' performance with Hugo and links an ssg-bench repository.
- Blades uses Mustache-style templates and the Ramhorns Rust templating engine, and suggests caretaker for watching or auxiliary automation.

### Sources

- <https://crates.io/crates/blades>
- <https://github.com/grego/blades#readme>
- <https://www.getblades.org/>
- <https://www.getblades.org/config.html>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: Blades.toml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - blades: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: www/blades/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/blades.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/blades.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph