Although I don’t use Jekyll, loved this idea. I think using SQLite as the main data source would be a nice way to preserve content and play around with different static generators if they all had a plugin like this.

Also TIL about the baked data pattern, which I think is exactly what I needed for an upcoming project, so thanks for that. Though, I do align with one of the commenters here—this doesn’t seem like the same thing as the Baked data pattern in that Simon’s approach was about using a server rendered app with read-only data instead of generating a lot of static pages.

Nevertheless, this seems like a nice way for static generators to work with bit more complex data sources without dumbing them down to JSON/YAML.