I think the simplest static site generator is a command that visits all of your routes and saves the response html into a `build/` folder. That way you can use

I think the simplest static site generator is a command that visits all of your routes and saves the response html into a `build/` folder. That way you can use whichever framework/stack/templating/database you're already familiar and productive with, and in the end you're just deploying a static build folder from localhost. I started doing this when it came down to hacking Jekyll to implement something that's trivial to do in a microframework, so I went with microframework + page caching. I do the build and deploy with a gulp task that I'd like to generalize into a gulp module.