Why Static Site Generators are Awesome

Wes and Scott talk all about Static Site Generators!

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Show Notes

1:00

• Woah Scott's Audio!

4:00

• #TastyTreats Winners

8:00

• What are static site generators?

10:00

• Benefits of Static Site Generators
• Gatsby
• StaticGen.com
• Jekyll
• Hugo
• Hexo

24:00

• More complicated apps as static sites
• Next.js Static Export
• Nuxt.js

34:00

• Limitations of a static site
• What happens when you need something on the server?
• Snipcart for Ecommerce
• Algolia
• Awestruct
• Hot Hot Reloading

41:00

• Using with a Headless CMS
• Reloading The Pages

48:00

• WHAT WHAT Scott is Canadian?!

50:00

• Where can you host a Static Site?
• Literally Anywhere
• Github Pages
• Netlify
• rsync
• WPGraphQL

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