Beginner questions - incremental regeneration & html from data

[kosirm]

Hi, I'm looking for static site generator and hexo looks like a good choice since it is node based.
First of all I would like to congratulate all contributors for their work, thanks for sharing this amazing
free software with us!
I would like to know some details, which I can't find in documentation.

My two questions:
1.) is it possible to incrementaly generate hexo site, so I don't have to regenerate whole site, if only one file was changed?
Suppose I have thousands of pages... you know what I mean :)

2.) I would like to know if it is possible in Hexo to create pages from data file, something like this in jekyll...
For example if I have a list of products and I would like to create one page for every product from list (based on template)...

Example:
Suppose I have data file with data for users (name, address, bio, etc).
I would like to generate:

• html page with all users (based on one template)
• html page for every user (based on second template)

At the same time user pages should be linked from page with all users, so if you click on user on page with all users, browser should load detail page with that user. Hope this makes sense.

Since I'm new to hexo, I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction (maybe some plugin already exist, etc).
Thanks in advance for any reply!

[NoahDragon]

1. yes, if you don't run hexo clean or delete db.json file, Hexo will only generate the file that just changed. However, currently, we have a bug on this feature db.json gets wiped when a new post is created, is this normal? #2900
2. yes, it could. The https://hexo.io is generated based on data files. However, you may need to write scripts to support the link between generated pages.

[kosirm]

Thanks for answer! Good luck with bug squashing :)