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Static Site Generation (SSG) with Next.js: When and Why?

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In today’s fast-paced web environment, performance, scalability, and SEO are crucial for building successful web applications. Next.js , a powerful React framework, offers multiple rendering strategies, one of which is Static Site Generation (SSG) . But what exactly is SSG, and when should you use it over Server-Side Rendering (SSR) or Client-Side Rendering (CSR)? What is Static Site Generation (SSG)? SSG is a rendering method where HTML pages are generated at build time , not on the server or in the browser during runtime. This means content is pre-rendered and served as static HTML files. Next.js uses the getStaticProps() function to generate these pages at build time. // pages/blog/[slug].js export async function getStaticProps(context) { const { slug } = context.params; const post = await fetchPost(slug); return { props: { post } }; } export async function getStaticPaths() { const posts = await fetchAllPosts(); const paths = posts.map(post => ({ ...