Static Site Generators Pros, Cons, & Surprises
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What are ‘Static Site Generators’ (SSG’s), what are the pros and cons, and when should we use them?
When building my own personal portfolio website, I chose to lean into static site generators and learn something new. The personal portfolio is an excellent use case for a Hugo site hosted somewhere like Netlify, and that is just what I did with RobertKevinPhillips.com.
In this post I will:
- Explain what SSG’s are
- Cover pros & cons
- List some popular SSG sites that may surprise you
What are Static Site Generators (SSG’s)?
The name here tells us a lot. The implication, obvious, that some sites are static while others are dynamic. In the case of static, think fixed or constant content. This means that, just like creating a Word document and clicking save, developers create HTML content for a whole website (perhaps many pages thereof) and save that version of the content. They then upload all of this content server where it can be delivered upon request to browsers, and quite well by the way. More on that later…
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