title: Human Guide description: Human-maintained guidance for @lastshotlabs/slingshot-ssg

@lastshotlabs/slingshot-ssg is Slingshot's static-generation helper package. It builds on the SSR contracts to discover which routes should be pre-rendered, resolve concrete paths for dynamic routes, and write static HTML output to disk.

When To Use It

Use this package when your app needs:

• fully static output for some or all SSR routes
• build-time pre-rendering driven by the same route tree and renderer used at request time
• static pages generated from revalidate: false routes
• dynamic route expansion via staticPaths() or generateStaticParams()

It is a build-time library, not a runtime Slingshot plugin.

Minimum Setup

The main inputs are the SSR renderer plus an SsgConfig:

• serverRoutesDir
• assetsManifest
• outDir

All of those paths should be absolute.

The most important optional controls are:

• concurrency, which defaults to 4
• clientEntry, when the Vite client entry chunk does not match the common defaults
• staticPathsTimeoutMs, which bounds how long any single staticPaths() / generateStaticParams() call may run before the build fails. Defaults to 60000. Set this when a route's path resolver fans out to a slow upstream so builds fail fast instead of hanging.

What You Get

The package exposes two main capabilities:

• collectSsgRoutes(config) scans the server route tree and returns concrete URL paths to render
• renderSsgPage() and renderSsgPages() render those paths to {outDir}/.../index.html

The renderer prefers the full SSR chain path:

• resolve the route chain with resolveRouteChain()
• render with renderer.renderChain() when a file-based chain exists
• fall back to renderer.resolve() plus renderer.render() when no file-based chain exists

That means SSG is trying to preserve the same layout and routing semantics the SSR path uses, not invent a separate rendering model.

Common Customization

The important files are:

• src/crawler.ts for route discovery
• src/renderer.ts for static rendering and output writing
• src/types.ts for config and result contracts

The main knobs you are likely to tune are:

• which routes emit revalidate: false
• whether dynamic routes use staticPaths() or generateStaticParams()
• output concurrency
• client entry selection for injected asset tags

Gotchas

• All config paths should be absolute. Relative paths are not the supported contract.
• Dynamic routes with revalidate: false but no staticPaths() or generateStaticParams() are skipped with a warning.
• Non-200 renderer responses are skipped instead of being written as static output.
• Build-time route expansion runs with a minimal load context. getUser() is null, and bsCtx is only available when the build injects globalThis.__ssgBsCtx.
• The package writes index.html files under nested directories. That output shape is deliberate and should stay aligned with how slingshot-ssr serves staticDir content.

Key Files

• src/index.ts
• src/crawler.ts
• src/renderer.ts
• src/types.ts
• src/cli.ts