Just had a confusion with some of the concepts in Magento 2. What is static file materialization means in Magento 2 and wanted to know its different with static views ?
It will be great if someone can explain both concepts and the difference as I didn't find enough resources to explain what exactly "static file materialization" means.
Static file materialization is the action of writing static view files to the Magento file system.
Static means cached, understand the file is not dynamically generated.
View means the view/presentation layer from MVC.
You can find the static view files under /pub/static folder and some of them are cached under the /var/view_preprocessed folder.
You can get more details in the official documentation: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-static-view.html
