#web

Static Site Generators

2022-10-24

So my current fascination is static site generators—programs that you can feed, for example, a set of plain-text blog files, and have them rendered into a folder full of “static” HTML files that can be deployed directly to a webserver with no “moving parts.”

Websites made of static files are nice, both because those files are very easy to cache for a significant speed up at load time, and because the number of places security holes could be hiding is greatly reduced. This blog uses an SSG called Eleventy.js.