Static Site Generator Community Meeting (March 12)

[Colin Clark]

Hi Justin,

On Mar 14, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> "A static site generator written in Node.js could be easily extended with features written using Infusion and other tools we already use every day (e.g. Grunt). Even more interestingly, we might consider the long-term possibility of integrating static site generation features into Kettle, so that developers could easily deploy blended sites that consistent mostly of static HTML but also include JSON feeds or some dynamically-generated pages.
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> I worry that this could start bringing us back to our heavy maintenance and security issues. If the dynamically generated pages are still read only (fully controlled by the server without user input from the client) it may be okay. Avtar, you're in a better position than I to know if this is a legitimate concern. Could you please weigh in on that?

A static site generator won't do everything for us. I'm suggesting a smooth path from static sites to light dynamicity when it's needed (and only when). Can you elaborate on how you think this is any more of a security or maintenance issue than if we were, say, writing our own custom Drupal modules from scratch?

Colin