I think this article unnecessarily conflates the pre-rendering techniques used for JS-heavy websites with what I would call a static website build/compile process.
Using wget to compile your website is a clever idea. But it won't work if your website uses JS to generate links, so I wouldn't call it pre-rendering (since there better not be any post-rendering)
Yeah it doesn't work if you're relying on JS for interactions and layout, but wget's crawling technique works great if you're happy with using server-side rendering for content.
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I think this article unnecessarily conflates the pre-rendering techniques used for JS-heavy websites with what I would call a static website build/compile process.
Using wget to compile your website is a clever idea. But it won't work if your website uses JS to generate links, so I wouldn't call it pre-rendering (since there better not be any post-rendering)
Yeah it doesn't work if you're relying on JS for interactions and layout, but wget's crawling technique works great if you're happy with using server-side rendering for content.