Pretty sure I've pointed this out before, but the architecture that @philwalton outlines in this post is the platonic ideal for nearly every content site in 2020. If your tools don't support getting to this architecture, get new tools:
https://philipwalton.com/articles/smaller-html-payloads-with-service-workers/ …
Platforms have a hard time being opinionated, but I'm optimistic about tools baking this architecture in.
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As for SSG's, we're really struggling w/ the current crop to get them to reasonable baseline perf. Ideal perf is something you can work towards once you're not shooting yourself in the proverbial foot in other ways.
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So if *you* were making a straight up content site today, what tool(s) would you use? This is a practical question for me: I have a spike in Jekyll, but also looking at e.g. Middleman, Netlify CMS
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I am probably being sloppy with language: by platforms I really mean "highly-utilized tools" like Jekyll, Gatsby, etc.
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I can imagine a future where
@gatsbyjs + their "no-js" plugin + some new work to enable this sort of template stitching could get to truly exquisite perf:https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-no-javascript/ …
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