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by seanwilson 2250 days ago
> Preparing data for external use always takes extra effort.

How much effort are you really talking about for a static site though? Can you be specific?

Most sites I've worked on are processing a modest number of Markdown + JSON files, where sometimes these are pulled in from an external URL. Why does any of this require anything particularly complicated or anything that could justify a big performance hit?

> You can build an efficient self-contained tool in JavaScript too.

Does one exist for static site generators though?