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> Static sites are really only appropriate for sites that rarely ever change. A blog may or may not change frequently enough to warrant a backend. Any modern S
by sneak 3y ago
> Static sites are really only appropriate for sites that rarely ever change. A blog may or may not change frequently enough to warrant a backend.
Any modern SSG can build and deploy in under a minute, usually in single digit seconds. This isn't really an issue in practice at all.
Static sites work fine even if you are updating many times an hour. This is a far cry from "rarely ever change".
- evantbyrne 3y agoYou're conflating build times and deploy times. A low friction deployment might take a couple minutes end-to-end for something that "builds" in a few seconds once the CI is booted up. Sure, that's fine for hobbyist stuff that is always being edited by the web developer and nobody else. The point is a proper backend editing experience brings so much to the table. Once upon a time, my promotion was delayed because the team lead I answered to decided to use a SSG instead of a proper CMS, and non-technical stakeholders were not happy about the limitations.