Ask HN: Why a Static Site Generator?
If you use a static site generator, especially to create a blog, why do you use it? Some reasons I've heard before are:
* Pages load faster * Hosting costs are low or free * Can write while offline * Can publish with a workflow you like (e.g. text editor > commit > push) * Can keep a history of changes (version control) * Posts start offline and are saved locally by default
Anything else? That's a good question, A static site is famous in developer community mostly, There are a couple of reasons like 1. developers are very handy with Github, so can directly write blogs or HTML pages and commit push in GitHub easily. No login required in traditional CMS (developers are a bit lazy) 2. No database required, Static data is just a file so It doesn't require any databases. also, it can be managed with history via commit or branched. 3. hosting, Static site doesn't need any CPU operation (RAM), It just files so simple file-storage is enough to host. Here GitHub pages, AWS-S3, Google Storage, Zeit serverless and other static storage providers having features to host directly via Git commit. So you can host it within a seconds with just a small command. 4. Faster development,
It has less dependency like a database, third-party services, so we can develop it very fast than the traditional approach. And working in a team is very productive because no extra setup needed. just clone the repo, change and commit. With Zeit you can deploy every branch for every user for staging purpose within a 30sec. I am building https://firecamp.app with Nextjs serverless deployment feature (https://fc-web.nishchit14.now.sh This is staging domain, It'll be destroyed in future.)