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aliases: "SSG"
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title: Static Site Generators
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date_created: Sunday, August 28th 2022, 10:30:37 pm
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date_modified: Sunday, August 28th 2022, 10:33:14 pm
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Static Site Generators (SSGs) are [[Software Applications|software applications]] for building websites. Popular for blogs and other static content that doesn't change so frequently, though of course you can add [[JavaScript]] for interactivity.
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## Popular Static Site Generators
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- [[Eleventy]]
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- [[Jekyll]]
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- [[Zola]]
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## Password protection for static sites
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One challenge with static sites is password protection. Netlify offers login services. Another option is [robinmoisson/staticrypt](https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt), which uses [[JavaScript|JS]]-based cryptography to encrypt the contents of the site. |