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Discussion on: You don’t always need a CMS

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Alex Lohr

The alternative you are using is called SSG, or static site generator. There are a few pre-built generators out there, but you can easily roll your own.

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Chris Bongers

Yep, it's not always a non-cms though.
You can have a SSG and still leverage a CMS

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Alex Lohr

The CMS part is no longer static, so even if you feed a static page with it, the whole thing would not be an SSG in its entirety.

But yes, you can obviously do that.

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Murilo Picinato

CMS can be static if it is a headless CMS ;D