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0 pointsc-hendricks2y ago0 comments

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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ehnto2y ago· 2 in thread

No I was saying the opposite, a static site is necessarily not dynamic.

I would not want to pre-generate those pages. Your static files on an S3 bucket are still served by a webserver.

Anyway, can you honestly say, hand over heart, that server side rendered JSX or React is a robust and simple solution comparable to SSI or I don't know, a bit of copy pasting? Of course not. Server side rendering is a complex toolchain that will rapidly and constantly deprecate. My blog has been sitting on the same "stack" for 13 years, takes me 5 seconds to set up a new post.

I have worked on countless JS projects, sometimes they don't even build just 6 months later without faffing about with packages and versions.

c-hendricksOP2y ago

Yeah at this point I have literally no idea what you're talking about?

The thread is about pregenerating static content, "can you honestly say, hand over heart, that server side rendered ..." is way off base. Seems like"static site" means "assets can be plopped into any server that can serve static assets" to one set of people, and to others it's an invitation to balk?

I'm in the former camp, if that wasn't obvious. If you want to talk about serving static assets to host a blog, I'm down. If you want to compare server stacks, I'm out.

ehnto2y ago

Yeah I was going to point out this is getting pretty obtuse but didn't want to be rude. I think we're talking past eachother, or I'm missing something.

My TL;DR I guess, pregenerating/SSR, is a more complicated toolchain than is needed for a simple site (and what I interpreted the topic comment's point to be). How you serve it wasn't really the issue, that is the easy part. I might leave it at that, cheers for being gracious.

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