jargon

Frontend & browser·Rendering and the browser pipeline

every page was rendered once at build time and the server is just handing out files.

Static site generation

Also calledSSG, prerendering, build-time rendering

Rendering every page during the build and serving the results as static files from a CDN. It is the fastest and cheapest option and the one with the fewest moving parts at runtime. It breaks down when the content changes often or depends on who is asking, because the only way to update a page is to rebuild it, and build time grows with the number of pages.

Commonly confused with