@cwebber @aaronpk i... may or may not have something i'm working on, personally, that does basically this 🤐
all i'll say is that Hugo recently released a feature for "content adapters", which let you dynamically "add pages" to your static site even if they're pulled from elsewhere... where "elsewhere" can mean "local json data files" or "live http api". it's pretty cool from my toying around with it. maybe by end-of-year i can show or tell a bit more...