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The magic happens when it fetches your desired content dynamically and integrates it into static files based on your configuration. You can set up the layout to your liking and wrapper components with React upfront and then plug in the content.
As simple as that. But then also, plugins can do things to your content. For example, if your content happens to be in Markdown, you want to transform it to HTML to output it on your website.