Static Site Generation

Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is a technique where a web page's HTML is generated on the server for each request and sent fully formed to the browser, rather tha…

Static Site Generation (SSG)

Static Site Generation (SSG) is a technique where a site's HTML pages are pre-rendered once at build time and served as plain static files, rather than being g…

Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)

Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a rendering technique, popularized by Next.js, that lets individual statically generated pages be regenerated in the b…

Hydration

Hydration is the process by which client-side JavaScript attaches event listeners and application state to server-rendered HTML, turning static markup into a f…

JAMstack

JAMstack is a web architecture pattern built on JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup — typically served as static files from a CDN and enhanced with dynam…

Headless CMS

A headless CMS is a content management system that stores and manages content but has no built-in frontend for displaying it, instead delivering content throug…

Static Site Generation

Learn how Next.js pre-renders pages to static HTML at build time using Static Site Generation, and when it's the right rendering strategy.

Static Site Generation Cheat Sheet

Covers pre-building HTML at build time with SSG, Next.js static generation APIs, deployment pipelines, and incremental regeneration.

SSR vs SSG vs ISR: What Is the Difference?

SSR (server-side rendering) generates the HTML for a page on every request, SSG (static site generation) generates the HTML once at build time and serves the s…