Lessons From Building a Static Site Generator

The backstory behind Elder.js and the thinking behind the 5 biggest design decisions.

Almost 2 months ago, we shipped Elder.js v1 and I wanted to do a recap of the lessons learned shipping it.

If you’re unaware, Elder.js is Svelte static site generator that supports Partial Hydration, 0kb client side JS when not needed, and it is built with large scale SEO properties in mind.

In this post I cover:

  • Demo from Svelte Summit
  • Why I built Elder.js
  • Why we open sourced it
  • The major design decisions
  • Things I’d like to improve.

Elder.js Demo Video

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Lessons From Building a Static Site Generator
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