A small team released a new static-site toolchain this week, aimed at developers who want fast builds without a large framework.
The release notes describe a build step under one second for a hundred-page site, along with a plugin system for custom output formats.
I keep coming back to static site generators when a project is small and the content does not change every minute. A static generator builds plain HTML files ahead of time, so the server just hands them out. There is no database query per page view and no serverside template render at request time.
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