The latest articles on Forem by Thorn Hall (@thornhall). https://forem.com/thornhall https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3624956%2F00d10479-23e2-44fb-8d68-d5c937328864.png https://forem.com/thornhall en Thorn Hall Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:15:29 +0000 https://forem.com/thornhall/building-a-hybrid-site-generator-with-go-sqlite-3j51 https://forem.com/thornhall/building-a-hybrid-site-generator-with-go-sqlite-3j51 <p>I've been pretty obsessed with Go lately. I had an old blog that was created using Jekyll + Github Pages, but I wanted something with less "batteries included" for my website. I also wanted to have an active count of likes and views for my posts, as this would motivate me.</p> <p>I decided to use Go to build a Hybrid Site Generator. Not sure if that is an actual term, but let me define it:</p> <ul> <li>A hybrid site generator is like a Static Site Generator (SSG), but with dynamic components such as likes and views.</li> </ul> <p>My Go app has 2 components:</p> <ul> <li>The Server, which serves pre-built HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also listens for and serves likes and views.</li> <li>The Builder, which takes data from markdown .md files, and generates static sites, run only once at build time.</li> </ul> <p>I had a really fun time learning how to create this in Go.</p> <p>I wrote more in-depth about it here: <a href="https://thorn.sh/go-sqlite/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Go Blog</a></p> <p>Have any thoughts or feedback? By the way, I'm considering adding comments as well :)</p> go sql