Are there any good options for baking out a Django site as static files?

Question

Say you have an existing database-backed Django site. Something simple, like single model containing a record for every minor league baseball team. The model is accessed by one view that lists all the teams, and another that accepts a slug and then creates a detail page all about that team.

Is there a good option for converting the app into a stack of baked out flat files, so that it could be served from a static file service like Amazon's S3?

I've toyed with Hyde but it's not clear to me how it applies to an existing site backed by a database.

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

django-medusa is largely unmaintained. These are some alternatives mentioned in the project's README:

• django-bakery, built and maintained the lovely people at the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. (Read about it here.)
• The alsoicode/django-medusa fork, by Brandon Taylor. Among other things, it's been kept up to date for newer versions of Django.
• django-freeze by Fabio Caccamo.
• django-staticgen by Mishbah Razzaque.

Answer 2

I understand your intent, but any decent framework these days offers some sort of caching mecanism that alleviate the pains of dynamic content. With a properly implemented cache, the difference between static and dynamic will be trivial. Trust me.

Happy coding, friend.