The latest articles on DEV Community by tsia (@tsia). https://dev.to/tsia https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F22550%2F690ddbcb-82bf-45be-b918-ada0e9914ede.jpeg https://dev.to/tsia en tsia Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:20:30 +0000 https://dev.to/tsia/my-static-site-generator-4k68 https://dev.to/tsia/my-static-site-generator-4k68 <p>my blog was running on ghost. and i liked it but i asked myself why should the server render each page on every request? I could use Varnish or something to cache everything but that would just increase the complexity and wouldn't work on shared web spaces.<br> so i built a static site generator. it runs once and spits out a whole bunch of html files. this way i just have to create a new file, put some markdown or html into it, run the magic script and there is the new blog post published.<br> with some git magic i can just have the repo locally, edit it completely offline and push it when i can.<br> and because it's just html in the end, it could basically just be hosted on Amazon S3 or Github pages or something like that.<br> and it's crazy fast.<br> comments are not possible of course but i could use disqus or just build something on my own.<br> i wrote the whole thing in 2 evenings so the code is not the nicest. don't be too harsh ;)<br> <a href="https://git.zeyel.net/open/htmlengine" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://git.zeyel.net/open/htmlengine</a></p> php html