alt Hacker News> all an SSG pipeline adds is more dependencies and stuff to break.
This is the exact opposite of what static site generation does.
> all an SSG pipeline adds is more dependencies and stuff to break.
This is the exact opposite of what static site generation does.
Not if you're already running servers and server applications. If you already have patterns for running and deploying server software, an SSG requires an extra preprocessing step to generate the HTML for the server.
If you don't use an SSG, this step is done by virtue of the server running.