[audiodude]

I have an understanding of static site generators, I've used several of them and even written my own. But I simply don't understand what this is or what it's doing. You're using a sqlite database during site generation time instead of .md files? You're definitely not querying the db at serve time right? I'm so confused...

[victorbjorklund]

Say you have a site about pokemons. Then you can have all the pokemons in a sql database (with a schema) instead of a bunch of MD files. Not all static sites are just blogposts.

[audiodude]

Right, looking again I understand better. Instead of a bunch of shaky YAML in a md file, you have properly structured data.

Isn't this what Gatsby tries to do with GraphQL?

[victorbjorklund]

Exactly. Yea, similar to what Gatsby does.

[audiodude]

Maybe I'm just not understanding the novelty of the concept. No one has done this before? That's very hard to believe.

[JoelMcCracken]

Who is to say it hasn’t been done before? OP did it and thought it was interesting and posted about it, and enough people also thought it was interesting so they upvoted.