May 18, 2026
Static Site Generation Explained with the Next.js Pages Router
Understand how local blog data becomes pre-rendered HTML during the build step.
Read articleThis project treats Next.js as a build engine. We author pages and local content, then `next build` transforms them into deployable assets that Cloudflare Pages can serve from the edge.
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Understand how local blog data becomes pre-rendered HTML during the build step.
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See what the build pipeline is doing when it walks routes and prepares deployable assets.
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Learn what Cloudflare Pages actually hosts after your Next.js project is built.
These starter articles mirror the architecture of this project: source content lives locally, Next.js turns routes into static output, and Cloudflare Pages delivers the result globally.
May 18, 2026
Understand how local blog data becomes pre-rendered HTML during the build step.
Read articleMay 15, 2026
See what the build pipeline is doing when it walks routes and prepares deployable assets.
Read articleMay 10, 2026
Learn what Cloudflare Pages actually hosts after your Next.js project is built.
Read articleWhy This Setup
Build-time generation
`getStaticProps` prepares page data during `next build`, so pages are ready as HTML before deployment.
CDN-friendly output
Static assets are easy for Cloudflare Pages to cache and serve quickly from edge locations around the world.