Modular HTML pages
Static generation: minimizing how much is re-generated When statically generating HTML content, you face an interesting challenge: If the page frame (the “chrome” of a page) contains information that changes frequently, you need to re-generate all pages every time it does. One example of such information is a top 10 list of the pages that were most popular during the last 30 days. A work-around is to save the information in a separate file and to load that information dynamically via JavaScript. You then have a choice: You can save a JSON file and transform that into HTML or you can save an HTML file and insert it without processing it. Apart from having to re-generate fewer files, you also save traffic, because the shared information only needs to be downloaded once and will be cached, afterwards. Similar: HTTP/2 and JavaScript modules This situation is similar to JavaScript modules. Currently, many modules are bundled (combined) into a single file, to avoid the cost of one connection...