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by PaulHoule 766 days ago
Pick a static site generator from this list

https://jamstack.org/generators/

My take is Hugo is pretty good and crazy fast (written in Go) but I like Pelican because it is easy to customize in Python.
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someuser54541 766 days ago
It's funny because Next.js is the first thing on that list.

Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?

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PaulHoule 766 days ago
Say you have 1000 pages of content and you want to change the footer or something in the header (suppose Google or Facebook now demand a new meta tag). Do you really want to change all those HTML pages by hand?

Also most web sites have navigation, lots of internal links will help web crawlers find everything and decide that it is important. Are you going to back and change them all by hand whenever you make a change?

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