What is 11ty?
A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.
11ty is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
11ty is an open source tool with 17.2K GitHub stars and 495 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to 11ty's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses 11ty?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use 11ty in their tech stacks, including Eko Tech Stack, Mitigate, and Orbit.love.
Developers
90 developers on StackShare have stated that they use 11ty.
11ty Integrations
Strapi, DatoCMS, Onboardbase, Kinsta Static Site Hosting, and Spinal CMS are some of the popular tools that integrate with 11ty. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with 11ty.
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11ty's Features
- Uses independent template engines
- Works with your project’s existing directory structure
- Works with multiple template languages
- Zero-config by default but has flexible configuration options
- JavaScript alternative to Jekyll
11ty Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to 11ty?
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Hexo
Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.
Metalsmith
In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
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