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There's nothing saying you couldn't provide a friendly UI on top of a static site generator. The first big hit CMS for publishing blogs, Movable Type (https://e
by smacktoward 7y ago
There's nothing saying you couldn't provide a friendly UI on top of a static site generator. The first big hit CMS for publishing blogs, Movable Type (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type), worked exactly that way -- it used MySQL as its content store and provided a nice WYSIWYG interface for working with content, but when you hit "Publish" it ground out your site as a set of static HTML files.
- _bxg1 7y agoThe parent comment seemed to be suggesting that people use a static site generator "instead of a CMS". Part of what I was trying to do with my comment is point out the orthogonality of the two. A static site generator is just a glorified cache over a normal web server.