Gossamer Features

A quick overview of what Gossamer can do.

Markdown Extensions

• GFM Tables – GitHub-flavored markdown tables
• Footnotes – Reference-style footnotes¹
• Smart Typography – Curly quotes, em-dashes, ellipses…

Layouts

Create _layout.html in any directory to customize the template. Use placeholders:

• – The rendered HTML
• Gossamer Features – From front matter
• Sat Jan 24 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) – Post date if available

Draft Support

Add draft: true to front matter to exclude a page from builds.

Dev Server

gossamer serve starts a local server with:

• Live rebuild on file changes
• Request logging
• Port 3000 by default