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Over the past few weeks, I mostly wrote on how to template a Node.js application with EJS using Express. Then, I wrote an article showing how to create a Markdown blog in Node.js using EJS, Express, gray-matter and markdown-it. Today, I'll combine those tutorials to turn the Markdown blog, from the last tutorial, into a simple SSG.
Over the past few weeks, I mostly wrote on how to template a Node.js application with EJS using Express. Then, I wrote an article showing how to create a Markdown blog in Node.js using EJS, Express, gray-matter and markdown-it. Today, I'll combine those tutorials to turn the Markdown blog, from the last tutorial, into a simple SSG.
Wherever you head on the web, the content you'll get as a client is made of HTML, CSS and some JavaScript. Think of HTML as a skeleton, CSS as it's external shapes and colors, and JavaScript as it's internal functionalities. With this in mind, you can ask yourself about the need of server side rendering... Static sites are way performant and secure than dynamic ones. But what about the need of interacting with a database or sending data on a particular page... ? This is where the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) steps in to leverage the static notion from "fixed" to "on demand dynamic functionalities" like submitting forms, posting comments, making payments, searching content, authentication, and so on... Today Jamstack is a continuous evolving ecosystem allowing developers to build better, faster and more secure applications, without losing the advantage of using dynamic features.
Over the past few weeks, I mostly wrote on how to template a Node.js application with EJS using Express. Then, I wrote an article showing how to create a Markdown blog in Node.js using EJS, Express, gray-matter and markdown-it. Today, I'll combine those tutorials to turn the Markdown blog, from the last tutorial, into a simple SSG.