[valisystem]

I once did a website exactly like this. Nothing required a web application server to run, and I was building the (quite simple) thing from the ground up.

Once my build environment was set up, the dev cycle and experience was stellar. Fast, on change, builds, lighting fast local page reloads.

Deployment was just pushing static files on the http server, that served only statics files, like the good old days.

Once that was done, a problem remained: since it was a one shot experiment, with something quite simple, I had only one dev environment for that thing, and I did not document how I did it.

My conclusion was : part of apps that serves dynamic page are kind of build environment that can't pre-built the artifact. But the build environment is part of the code, just like a Makefile would.

It's probably possible to build and serve static page with a good experience as a whole, but your tool quality (easy to deploy and reliable) for building must be great.