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I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around the term "static website generator". Is this just a new word for "HTML editor"? -- nm

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Nov 5 '15, 16:57

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One of my startup ideas is to take a static site generator and wire it up to a web based admin interface (like what wordpress has). Then you'd get the - Beryllium Nov 5, 17:04 1
- For the most part, static site generators are aimed squarely at developers and hobbyists. - Beryllium Nov 5, 17:05
No. The output of a static site generator is raw HTML, but the input can use all kinds of technology to bring it together. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 5, 16:58 8
- That makes a surprising amount of sense to me. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 16:59
- I use the Sculpin static site generator to maintain whateverthing.com - most of the content is in Markdown, and it uses the Twig templating engine -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 5, 16:59 2
  - Can you get it to harvest data from other web sites regardless of the format? -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 17:00 1
    - You can do all kinds of things as part of the build process - but once the HTML is uploaded to the server, it doesn't change. -- (edited) - Beryllium Nov 5, 17:02
- Isn't that basically what Wordpress is? -- nm - iSpam Nov 5, 16:58 3
  - No - wordpress is dynamic. Technically the output is still HTML, but it's built on each request. Static site generators build it once. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 5, 16:59 2
    - There are plugins that do caching of wordpress's output, and they are very close to the same behaviour as a static site generator. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 5, 17:00 1
      - Gotcha. That's probably what I was really thinking of. -- nm - iSpam Nov 5, 17:00

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