> Preparing data for external use always takes extra effort. How much effort are you really talking about for a static site though? Can you be specific? Most

> Preparing data for external use always takes extra effort. How much effort are you really talking about for a static site though? Can you be specific? Most sites I've worked on are processing a modest number of Markdown + JSON files, where sometimes these are pulled in from an external URL. Why does any of this require anything particularly complicated or anything that could justify a big performance hit? > You can build an efficient self-contained tool in JavaScript too. Does one exist for static site generators though?