RSrsolva·Aug 9, 2022
> Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update?
I am experimenting with Caddy's template functionality [0] in my pursuit of making dependency-free and buildless websites. Caddy's templates are inspired by the Server Side Include (SSI) functionality in Apache and Nginx, except it uses Golang's syntax. I have made several websites in Hugo and find it pleasantly similar, only more bear-bones.
Although Caddy is serving static sites to the browser, it is technically more like using a dynamic scripting language like PHP on the server. I guess Caddy templates outperform PHP by a large margin because it is written in Golang and compiled, but I have never tested this hypothesis.
Funfact: Caddy's entire website is written with Caddy's template system and the source code is avai
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[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http.handlers.templates
[1] https://github.com/caddyserver/website