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SSG and CMS

Wang Fuqiang

When the topic of SSG ¹ was discussed in the Guo group that day, many people seemed to be confused about the relationship between SSG and CMS, so I drew a picture…

The basic logic is that there are two paths from the era of traditional static page websites (web1.0):

1. One is to introduce a database and increase the management of dynamic content; (web 2.0)
2. One is to introduce translation and composition during compilation, but retain the static nature of delivery; (web 1.5?)

Originally, a web application would have a foreground program and a background program, with a database in between to maintain shared state. As a type of web application for dynamic content management, CMS has the same structure, but the implementation details include a series of peripheral and runtime infrastructure such as versioning, CDN acceleration, and release deployment.

Today, this scenario has basically been upgraded by Block-based content management solutions on the cloud, such as Notion/Feishu Documents, etc. But the underlying logic has not changed. It is still the structure of frontend + database + background program during runtime.

However, the ecology is diverse. Combining the traditional static solution with the CMS solution (hybrid does not sound good, hybrid is more advanced) has also formed a new ecological appearance, that is, the SSG + headless CMS solution. User-edited content and contributed content are still done in the CMS. However, if you are not satisfied with the default front-end of the CMS or want to use other solutions to customize it, you can pull the content in the CMS through the API provided by headless CMS, and then Use it in your own SSG solution or SSR solution.

This is a simple interpretation of the above picture.

1. Students who don’t know what SSG is can go to related topics on Architecture Encyclopedia ︎

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