vite plugin for Static Site Generation (SSG)

[cliffordfajardo]

Description

As a developer moving from Nextjs that is used to static site generation, it would be nice to be able to use SSG in my remix app

Suggested solution

Create a vite plugin that can do SSG for you when you run npm run build

Background context
One of the questions i hear alot about remix is that if can do static site generation.
For folks wanting to use remix to build marketing sites, homepage's or even blog's, this could be a useful.
Useful for environments that where you can't or are not allowed to easily provision your own server and only have access to pushing static files to server/CDN

Alternative

Manual Approach

The alternative is setting this up manually by writing your own script
For example. create script that will:

• start your remix app
• then have your crawler in your script, visit a list of urls in your app (AKA your static pages) get the HTML output
  • save the HTML output from visiting the page to a public or static directory
• ...

More details on a basic implementation for conceptual purposes

• https://mobile.twitter.com/mjackson/status/1585795441907494912

Vite plugin approach

• users wouldn't need to write a manual script
• plugin can tap into vite SSR apis and build lifecycle
• user's can pass options object to vite plugin

Validations

• Read the Contributing Guidelines.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that request the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.