Nuxt is more than sufficient as a static site generator. It’s better to use SSR if you have dynamic pages with changing content, which requires a server. But Nuxt has the option to generate the pages statically (using Vue component templates to create static HTML pages).
It’s my favourite development in web development in a long time.
I’m starting to feel like I want to use JS now for sites instead of just being forced to because of its power on the frontend. I hope the future is top heavy component based SSR with an API style backend which also runs off your web server.
With much simpler API requirements it’s easier to use languages like Rust and Haskell since the whole templating, view helpers, routing, layouts, asset management, and rendering stuff is all handled for you by the SSR app. Then you focus the backend on models, logic, authentication, and databases.