Company
Date Published
Author
Phil Hawksworth
Word count
2082
Language
English
Hacker News points
84

Summary

This year has seen significant growth in static site generators (SSGs) as developers continue to prioritize rapid development workflows, integrations, and performance. Gatsby remains a popular choice, leveraging React and GraphQL for a robust component model and plugin ecosystem. Next.js gained popularity in 2021, focusing on hybrid SSG/SSR models and server-side rendering with support for incremental regeneration. Nuxt.js offers a Vue-based approach, providing modularity and composability through its underlying Vue component model and plugins. Jekyll continues to be a trusted tool, particularly within the GitHub environment, while Hugo delivers fast site build speeds and a large library of ready-made themes. Gridsome is a Vue.js-powered framework for building static generated websites & apps, emphasizing progressive enhancement and hot-reloading. Docusaurus is focused on delivering documentation sites, utilizing MDX for content writing and embedding JSX/React components into markdown. Eleventy remains popular among performance-focused developers, offering transparency and unobtrusiveness in its site generation process. Scully delivers SSG capabilities to Angular applications, while SvelteKit adopts a progressive enhancement approach with Svelte components and serverless back-ends. Vite is an open-source project aiming to provide a faster and leaner development experience for the web, leveraging Rollup and smart defaults. With new tools emerging and approaches evolving, this space continues to be interesting and dynamic.