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I did that the years before: using a static site generator. The goal is to explore new technologies so I can decide what to use at work. I spent quite some time on the router aspect here, which I know now more of, that I can use during the work year (where I won't have time to explore this.)

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But this is not a regular static site, right? In the sense that it does not work with Javascript disabled, which is why you needed to do this:

> Then I remembered that I would probably need to redirect all requests to index.html.

Compare that to e.g. my blog (also the result of an experiment), which has the fast page changes you were looking for, but also works without Javascript, albeit with full page refreshes when switching pages: https://vincenttunru.com/

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