How is a static site generated?

Question

Apache HTTP Server

They asked me to add news to the site. The site is completely static, there are include directives that connect the menu, header, footer. There is a link to the news and the news itself - each in a separate html. It is obvious that the site was generated by something like jekyll. The only thing is the releases.cache file at the root.
So here's the question: How is it generated (what kind of system has releases.cache)? If you follow the path of the developer, then what system is better to use to recreate all the templates and configs that left with the performer?

Answer 1

In the comments to the question , Maxim Timofeev expressed the idea that static is "bad sites and the last century" and dragged a person to his side. Let me explain a bit and disagree.
A good programmer is distinguished by the fact that for each task he selects a suitable tool, and so, statics for some certain purposes is the very necessary tool.
1. The download speed of statically generated projects is out of competition, because everything is pure html.
2. Safety. More precisely, I would say - the absence of danger. You don't have a northern code as such at all.
Why deploy an entire application for projects that the old man can handle and abandon what I wrote a little higher?
I highly recommend Jekyll
Very easy to learn, plus you can host on github.

Answer 2

m.b. https://www.staticgen.com/ will help