Static site generator
A static site generator is software that builds deployable static website files from source content, templates, or application data before requests are made.
React Quickly, Second Edition
A static site generator produces deployable website files ahead of request time rather than rendering each page dynamically.
- How it is used
- Deploys infrequently updated React websites as prebuilt HTML with minimal browser-side JavaScript.
- How deep it goes
- Defines pre-rendering and distinguishes SSGs from SSR frameworks, but does not detail configuration or implementation steps.
- Examples
- Uses blogs, smaller business sites, e-commerce sites, Gatsby, Next.js, and Remix as examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate whether Gatsby, Next.js, or Remix suits a pre-rendered React website and its update requirements.
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Django in Action
A site generator is a tool that produces deployable website files from source content, templates, or application data.
- How it is used
- Uses Django templates and URL mappings to produce static files when hosting a dynamic site would be excessive.
- How deep it goes
- Explains composition, caching, installation, URL replacement, and file generation, but does not detail generated-file hosting.
- Examples
- Uses a family recipe site whose data files feed a simple HTML-rendering view.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Django Distill by installing it, registering the app, replacing path(), and generating mapped static URLs.
Related concepts
- componentuses · A software component is a modular part of a larger system that provides related functionality and interacts with other parts through defined boundaries or interfaces.
- Markdownconfigured by · Markdown is a lightweight markup language that uses readable plain-text syntax to represent structured and formatted documents.
- Reactuses · React is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces from declarative, reusable components.
- server-side renderingalternative to · A web-rendering technique in which a server generates a user interface’s markup or other rendered representation before delivering it to a client.
- django-distillincludes · django-distill is a Django library that renders selected project URLs into static website files.
- prerenderingproduces · Prerendering is the generation of web-page HTML before it is requested or served, typically as prebuilt files.
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