For the purpose of extending its core functionality, the Assemble framework provides a plugin system. There are currently only a handful of plugins available for Assemble, but having the plugin system available makes it easy for us to create and reuse extensions of our own, and perhaps even share them with the community.
In this recipe we'll be continuing working on the project from the Creating a template helper recipe. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with it's content. Before we start we should also make sure that the site builder and server are running. If they aren't yet running they can be started using the grunt server command.
The following steps take us through making use of the assemble-middleware-sitemap plugin to generate a well-formed sitemap that can be used by web crawlers to navigate and index the site.
First, we need to install the package that contains the
assemble-middleware-sitemapplugin, and save it to our package...