Comment by rsolva

I recently tried building a website using Server Side Includes (SSI) with apache/nginx to make templates for the head, header and footer. Then I found myself missing the way Hugo does things, using a base template and injecting the content into the base template instead.

This was easy do achieve with PHP with a super minimal setup, so I thought, why not? Still no build steps!

PHP is quite ubiquitous and stable these days so it is practically equivalent to making a static site. Just a few sprinkles of dynamism to avoid repeting HTML all over the place.