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Another option that I’ve found worthwhile is to write a Jekyll Plugin, so you get a stable base for your SSG, and you can experiment with adding weird functionality on top.

For my news website, I needed to scrape some news from a third party API, and I just moved it to a Jekyll plugin so it embeds neatly into the website. Works quite well: https://github.com/captn3m0/news

Another place where it made sense to use SQLite as a data source, I wrote a Jekyll SQLite plugin.