Writing your own static website generator

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The article advocates for a return to static web pages, citing their efficiency and low dependency compared to modern dynamic sites.
Static pages are beneficial for small projects or data-heavy sites, as they load data once locally, eliminating wait times for runtime software.
Non-static sites face issues like needing optimization for fast loading, bloated file sizes from JavaScript libraries, and being slower than static pages.
Static page generators involve four stages: input, filtering, swapping, and output, with JSON recommended as an ideal input data type due to its key-value structure.
Templates in static generators use keywords to map data keys to values, allowing dynamic insertion of static data into web pages without manual editing.
The filtering and swapping process in generators like Plate involves iterating through templates to replace prefixes, keys, and suffixes with corresponding data values.
Output can be handled by writing generated templates to files or using trigger lines in source files to insert data at specific points, enhancing flexibility.

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