Why Static Site Generation

2026-06-08

Static site generation (SSG) means every route is rendered to plain HTML ahead of time, during the build, instead of on every request.

The tradeoffs

1. Speed — pages are served as static files, so there's no server-side rendering cost per request.
2. Simplicity — hosting is just static file hosting, no runtime needed.
3. Freshness — content only updates when you rebuild and redeploy.

For a blog, where content changes far less often than it's read, this is a great fit. vite-react-ssg walks the route tree defined in src/routes.tsx, renders each route with React's server renderer, and writes the result to disk alongside the client bundle for hydration.