Test static site generation

Introduction

This small snippet aims to convince that you can render all static pages at once using SSG-scheme.

Scheme is as follows:

Aim is to deliver plain ol' HTML pages by web server. No, no application server accepted; This is best for most of services!
Problem: You have redundant content, and you don't want the hassle to maintain HTML files:
- No functions, so redundant code;
- Can't properly handle modular breakdown (header, footer, sections);
- When you made it work once, shall you re-understand everything 6 months later to thange stubs?

Here is how it works:

We store relevant data in a YAML file, say settings.yml.
We Use Nunjucks, the millenials way to code, to generate Jinja2-styled webpages on steroids.
We Then compile the whole once, and after we got static HTML for basically every use.

What repo doesn't contain:

Install NodeJS and npm

  npm run build

Serve your webserver to display the public folder as webroot.