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0 pointsehnto2y ago0 comments

I think you all missed GPs point, JS is barely required, let alone an SPA framework, let alone static generation in an SPA framework, etc.

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c-hendricks2y ago· 2 in thread

And you're missing the other GPs point. Even when building a static website, you might want to reuse components. Or use shared components. Or do some logic. Or easily compose things.

Note they said "JSX as a templating language". Why worsen the experience using Python + Jinja when you're just building a static site.

ehntoOP2y ago

Mm, herein lies the problem, I was not thinking about Python at all, and I suspect we are all thinking about various different tools.

A static site is necessarily not dynamic though, as soon as you need dynamic features you need to reach for one tool or another. "Static site generators" are just dynamic sites with a pre-compile step instead of JIT.

When I think of a static site, I am thinking HTML, CSS, some server side includes for header and footer. A bit of vanilla JS if you absolutely need it. Apache and nginx both have native template includes so you don't even need an extra language like py or php.

c-hendricks2y ago

A static site to you requires a server generating files? A static site to me implies the assets can be dumped to something like S3 and you're done.

So if you wanted to say, pre-generate those pages with the header and footer already there, you would ... ?

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