Saying goodbye to static generation
Frontend First
BuildUI - A New Approach to Pre-Generating Public Pages on CDNs
Next.js has a really nice setup for doing static generation, and that's kind of how we approached it. We basically fetch the data we needed from our backend, pre-built all the pages for each video in the site. But we still needed to have some dynamism to show, hey, you don't have access to this video. Also, we wanted to hide the Pro URL that's coming from our backend so that people couldn't watch the video if they weren't signed in.
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