Static prerender (SSG) build mode for SEO and CMS-backed content sites
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Brett Prieskorn
Vibe currently renders as a client-side React SPA. For interactive apps and brochure sites this is fine — but for SEO-critical content pages (blogs, resource libraries), the initial HTML is an empty root div. Search crawlers deprioritize JS-rendered content, and AI crawlers largely don't execute JS at all.
The request is an additional SSG build mode — not a replacement of current behaviour — where:
Content is fetched from an external CMS API (e.g. headless WordPress REST/WPGraphQL) at build time
Each route is emitted as a fully prerendered static HTML page
A CMS webhook optionally triggers a rebuild on publish
The data connection already works today (Vibe can query public CMS endpoints via fetch). The gap is rendering — content needs to be in the initial HTML response, not assembled in the browser.
Who this unblocks:
Partners building high-velocity content sites for clients where SEO and AI crawler visibility are the primary business case. Blackfeather Digital (AI Certified Partner) raised this directly — it is the single blocker preventing them from standardizing all web builds on Vibe.
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Rylan Morris - Vendasta
updated the status to
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Jesse Redl
As of today all new projects created within Vendasta Vibe will be powered by a new runtime. Tanstack start is still a relatively new framework, but it supports SSR (server side rendering). You can find more information about the framework itself here: https://tanstack.com/start/latest
This also means, that when you publish an application the application will be getting its own bit of compute powered by the Vendasta Platform. We are still optimizing cold start times, but I'm of the the opinion its ready to go!
This change makes the landing pages and websites we publish AEO friendly. Meaning, you can ask claude, grok, perpexity, gemni, chatgpt, etc. to inspect your website and the answer engine will be able to read the content.
For projects, that have been started (or converted), you will now have more control over which types of seo / aeo additions are available on the site. You will have the ability to toggle on (or off), robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap.xml from again an seo / aeo point of view.
If you have an existing website you want to convert you can run the magic backend skill:
Migrate this project from the Classic Vite + React Router stack to TanStack Start. Follow the migrate-to-tanstack skill for the full procedure.
We have plans to elevate this into the vibe settings page in the future. Watch for the official release announcement (coming soon), along with what is planned in the next phase of the project.
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Luboš Čipera
Any update on this? We can't build websites for our customers. Thanks for any info
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Jesse Redl
Luboš Čipera cee my comment above! More to come on the official release announcement soon.
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Deborah To
updated the status to
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Jesse Redl
I upvoted this one too Bret!
We will see if we can get something into our calendars this week.
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Luboš Čipera
Jesse Redl Hi Jesse, is there any ETA on this? Thanks!