Staticgen is a platform to monitor trends in static site generation, and Spike is one of its notable newcomers. Spike is built on top of Webpack and utilizes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript parsers with plugin capabilities for transformation. It's fast, actively developed, and data-friendly. The tool was designed to be flexible without requiring heavy configuration out of the box. Its creator, Brian Douglas, moved from Roots due to the complexity of the core codebase, which hindered plugin development.