diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index a013e26..2a9b918 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     "generate:metadata": "cd .. && npx tsx scripts/generate-component-metadata.ts",
     "generate:favicons": "node ../scripts/generate-favicons.mjs",
     "generate:og-image": "node ../scripts/generate-og-image.mjs",
-    "generate:sitemap": "npx tsx scripts/generate-sitemap.ts",
+    "generate:sitemap": "node scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs",
     "dev": "npm run generate:metadata && vite",
     "build": "npm run generate:metadata && npm run generate:sitemap && tsc -b && vite build",
     "build:docker": "npm run generate:sitemap && vite build",
diff --git a/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs b/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27ae1a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/**
+ * Auto-generates public/sitemap.xml by parsing seoRoutes.ts
+ * Pure Node.js — no tsx/ts-node needed.
+ * Run: node scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs [--ping]
+ */
+
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { resolve, dirname } from 'path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const DOMAIN = 'https://velxio.dev';
+const TODAY = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+
+// Parse seoRoutes.ts to extract the route objects
+const seoRoutesPath = resolve(__dirname, '../src/seoRoutes.ts');
+const source = readFileSync(seoRoutesPath, 'utf-8');
+
+// Extract the array content between SEO_ROUTES = [ ... ];
+const match = source.match(/SEO_ROUTES[^=]*=\s*\[([\s\S]*?)\];/);
+if (!match) {
+  console.error('Could not parse SEO_ROUTES from seoRoutes.ts');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+// Evaluate the array (safe: only contains string/number/boolean literals)
+// Convert TS-style comments and trailing commas to valid JSON-ish
+const arrayStr = match[1]
+  .replace(/\/\/.*$/gm, '')   // remove line comments
+  .replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, ''); // remove block comments
+
+// Use Function constructor to evaluate the JS array literal
+const routes = new Function(`return [${arrayStr}]`)();
+
+const indexable = routes.filter((r) => !r.noindex);
+
+const xml = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
+        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+${indexable
+  .map(
+    (r) => `
+  <url>
+    <loc>${DOMAIN}${r.path}</loc>
+    <lastmod>${TODAY}</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>${r.changefreq ?? 'monthly'}</changefreq>
+    <priority>${r.priority ?? 0.5}</priority>
+  </url>`
+  )
+  .join('')}
+
+</urlset>
+`;
+
+const outPath = resolve(__dirname, '../public/sitemap.xml');
+writeFileSync(outPath, xml.trimStart(), 'utf-8');
+console.log(`sitemap.xml generated → ${indexable.length} URLs (${TODAY})`);
+
+// Ping search engines (optional)
+if (process.argv.includes('--ping')) {
+  const sitemapUrl = `${DOMAIN}/sitemap.xml`;
+  const pings = [
+    `https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=${encodeURIComponent(sitemapUrl)}`,
+    `https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=${encodeURIComponent(sitemapUrl)}`,
+  ];
+  console.log('Pinging search engines...');
+  await Promise.allSettled(
+    pings.map(async (url) => {
+      try {
+        const res = await fetch(url);
+        console.log(`  ${res.ok ? 'OK' : 'FAIL'} ${url.split('?')[0]}`);
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.log(`  FAIL ${url.split('?')[0]}: ${e.message}`);
+      }
+    })
+  );
+}