for reference: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/master/WSL/install...

I assume you mean NodeJS-based generators? Static site generators as a concept have existed since the very earliest days of the web. I worked on a team that used an in-house SSG to maintain dozens of sites years before NodeJS (or even V8) existed.

Realizing I should add a little more context: it’s very common to use Markdown for content and even for generating routes or subpages. But when those pages/posts/sections are expected to provide a certain data/content structure it’s generally provided by “front matter” metadata or mixed-source data like MDX which mixes JS/TS and JSX into Markdown. That experience doesn’t have any real editor safeguards, though it has some linting tools. But it has basically no dependency checks on what would be rendered. You just have to cross your fingers and hope. And if your content is expected to have any particular metadata, good luck refactoring.