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Best JavaScript Static Sites Generators to look out for in 2021
Static websites and so-called JAMstack have become pretty popular recently. Why? Why is the old-school HTML + CSS + JS trio in its redesigned and renamed form gaining so much attention? In this article, we’ll explore what the JAMstack is and what’s so good about it, as well as check out some of the best NodeJS-based Static Sites Generators (SSGs). Let’s get started!
JAMStack
For starters, let’s talk a bit about the JAMstack and static websites themselves. As you might already know, stack in programming is a term used to reference some toolset — a collection of libraries and frameworks. The popular examples of that are MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, Angular, and NodeJS) and MERN (React instead of Angular) stacks. So, as you can see, there’s some decrypting going on here.
Now, let’s get back to the JAMstack and, more specifically, to its definition:
Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
I think the text above is self-explanatory. With this information, we can make sense of the JAM shortcut:
