Why Static Site Generators are Awesome
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr 5 min
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Episode description
Wes and Scott talk all about Static Site Generators!
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Show Notes1:00
- Woah Scott's Audio!
4:00
- #TastyTreats Winners
8:00
- What are static site generators?
10:00
- Benefits of Static Site Generators
- Gatsby
- StaticGen.com
- Jekyll
- Hugo
- Hexo
24:00
- More complicated apps as static sites
- Next.js Static Export
- Nuxt.js
34:00
- Limitations of a static site
- What happens when you need something on the server?
- Snipcart for Ecommerce
- Algolia
- Awestruct
- Hot Hot Reloading
41:00
- Using with a Headless CMS
- Reloading The Pages
48:00
- WHAT WHAT Scott is Canadian?!
50:00
- Where can you host a Static Site?
- Literally Anywhere
- Github Pages
- Netlify
- rsync
- WPGraphQL
- Scott: JSRefactor
- Wes: Auto Rename Tag
- Scott's Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes' Instagram
- Wes' Twitter
- Wes' Facebook
- Scott's Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
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