The understated innovation of static site generators
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This article is a reflection on the bigger picture around the new generation of static sites generators that are currently gaining traction and adoption.Static site generators have been around for a while and an early player in the field was Jekyll, which gained a lot of traction at launch, triggered the birth of GitHub Pages and hence created a developer-friendly solution to content. We’re now seeing a new wave of static site generators like GatsbyJS, that no longer are limited to publishing needs of the developer audience (as in, manage your content completely on GitHub), and instead have the ambition of becoming the new tool for content publishing.The current wave of static site generators comes with an entire ecosystem that makes the movement wider in scope than site-building tools (...)
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