Note: This is very alpha. Mirror mode works but build mode is still lacking some big parts. Proceed with caution.

Stex is a static site generator tht works with existing Express apps, by looking at the routes you have defined and building static versions of each page.

It operates in two different modes:

• online/mirror mode: produce a static page for each URL that is requested through the app; think of it as "live spidering" your site as users user it.

• offline/build mode: given a list of possible pages (basically, URL parameter values mapped against the routes defined), build out all possible static pages. As of v0.0.1 this mode is not complete.

There are a million great static site generators for Node.js out there. Unfortunately, they all seem to share one glaring fault: they're all frameworks, meaning you have to build your site around the product rather than just including the library and using it.

I wanted a simple solution that you could drop in to an existing Express app in a couple of hours and easily configure.

See examples/stupid-content-management for an example of a braindead content management system which works seamlessly as a static site generator as well.

• Not safe to use when the page output includes personal data. In the future perhaps we could turn off online mode when certain cookies are set, etc.

• Mostly useful for GET routes (this is configurable; see the methods option)

• Requires an annoying/agonizing list of URL parameters for offline build mode (i.e., all valid user IDs or blog post slugs that may wind up in URLs). Luckily these are usually trivially available in your database somewhere if you care to look.