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My theory is that static site generators took off because of young developers learning via local development without the aid of a web server. Old-fashioned HTM
by vehemenz 6y ago
My theory is that static site generators took off because of young developers learning via local development without the aid of a web server.
Old-fashioned HTML/CSS with minimal server-side scripting can do all of this stuff easier with fewer limitations. And you can have dynamic content.
- bccdee 6y agoThe strength of SSGs is that you have the power and simplicity of plain HTML & CSS, but with two special features: - the ability to quickly change styling details on all of your pages - a markdown engine, so that you can write posts more quickly and ergonomically There are other nice features SSGs bring to the table (automatic RSS feed generation for instance) but those two features are the main things that stop me from writing directly in HTML. Especially the first one.