#Static site generation

#Introduction

In the production build, Rspress will automatically generate a static site for you, that is, generate the HTML content of each page. After the build is completed, the HTML will appear in the default product directory, such as:

doc_build
├── static # Static resources
│   ├── main.js
│   └── ...
├── index.html # Home page
├── about.html # About page
├── posts
│   ├── hello-world.html # Article page
│   └── ...

You can deploy the contents of this product directory to any static site hosting service, such as GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, etc.

#Advantages of SSG

The essence of static site generation is to pre-render components at the build stage, render the components into HTML strings, and then write them into HTML files. This has many benefits, such as:

• Faster FCP, because there is no need to wait for JS to load before rendering.
• More conducive to SEO, because search engine spiders can directly crawl the complete HTML content.

Considering the cost of static site generation, Rspress only pre-renders during production environment builds. In the development environment, it still uses the traditional SPA rendering mode without pre-rendering.

#Adding custom site content

Through builderConfig.html.tags, you can customize the site HTML content, such as adding statistical code, adding scripts and styles, etc.

import { defineConfig } from '@rspress/core';

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  builderConfig: {
    html: {
      tags: [
        {
          tag: 'script',
          attrs: {
            src: 'https://cdn.example.com/your-script.js',
          },
        },
        {
          tag: 'link',
          attrs: {
            rel: 'stylesheet',
            href: 'https://cdn.example.com/your-style.css',
          },
        },
      ],
    },
  },
});

For more detailed config of builderConfig.html.tags, please refer to the documentation.

#Preview

After the production build is complete, you can preview the output by using the rspress preview command. This command will start a local static site service, and you can access this service in your browser to preview the output.

> rspress preview

Preview server running at http://localhost:4173/

#Disabling SSG

If you do not want to use Static Site Generation, you can disable it through the ssg config.

import { defineConfig } from '@rspress/core';

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  ssg: false,
});