Once you get confident with your static site generator, you don't even have to download it or run it locally (not kidding). I have my Hugo-based blog on Gitlab

Once you get confident with your static site generator, you don't even have to download it or run it locally (not kidding). I have my Hugo-based blog on Gitlab (content, themes, config, etc). I just need to commit changes to my plain text content (Org/Markdown) -> Netlify sees the commit -> Runs hugo to generate the site -> Site gets published.