From Markdown to HTML: Designing the Static Site Generator Pipeline

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A static site generator is fundamentally a transformation system.

It takes source content, processes that content through a series of stages, and produces files that can be served directly to users.

For my static site generator, the core transformation looks like this:

Markdown
 ↓
Blocks
 ↓
Block Types
 ↓
Inline Text Nodes
 ↓
HTML Nodes
 ↓
HTML

The value of this architecture is not simply that it works.

Software Design on Ikwuka Okoye