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> How do you scale your site or add * number of posts or headers and footers that do things like show the latest post? It depends on your needs, some use a tem
by _xivi 2y ago
> How do you scale your site or add * number of posts or headers and footers that do things like show the latest post?
It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a script to build the site
The problem with many static site generators is that they grow beyond their initial mission and get bloated in an effort to please a wider audience, so previous adopters get tired of the imposed complexity and problematic dependencies they didn't need or ask for and start looking for simpler solutions that meet their needs.
I want to migrate, but my blog currently has this cool thing and I need it.
And since the audience probably can't settle, and keep trying different setups, all SSGs grow in complexity and more or less reach feature parity among each other.
- aidenn0 2y ago> It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a script to build the site That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me?
- _xivi 2y ago> That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me? Right? They didn't abandon the concept, they just picked a solution that better fits their needs. Less headache, less abstraction, and less surprises overall.