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Static site generator

A tool that turns content and templates into HTML files.

Astro, Eleventy, Hugo and Jekyll take Markdown or data plus layouts and output plain HTML. A 100-line Python script that fills templates is a static site generator too.

Related terms

Static site Rendering: SSG, SSR, CSR CI/CD

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