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11ty
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11ty

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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 Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Uses independent template enginesWorks with your project’s existing directory structureWorks with multiple template languagesZero-config by default but has flexible configuration optionsJavaScript alternative to Jekyll

11ty Pros & Cons

Pros of 11ty

  • ✓Flexibility on choosing template
  • ✓Content decoupled as much as possible from Eleventy
  • ✓Flexible, allows progressive conversion of templates
  • ✓Great use of data files/sources
  • ✓Zero boilerplate client-side JavaScript

Cons of 11ty

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11ty Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to 11ty?

Gatsby

Gatsby

Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.

Jekyll

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.

Hugo

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.

VuePress

VuePress

A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.

Hexo

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.

Astro

Astro

It is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. It combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.

11ty Discussions

Discover why developers choose 11ty. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Jan Vlnas
Jan Vlnas

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 11, 2022

Needs adviceonGitGitGitHubGitHubNetlify CMSNetlify CMS

Depends on what options and technologies you have available, and how do you deploy your website.

There are CMSs which update existing static pages through FTP: You provide access credentials, mark editable parts of your HTML in a markup, and then edit the content through the hosted CMS. I know two systems which work like that: Cushy CMS and Surreal CMS.

If the source of your site is versioned through Git (and hosted on GitHub), you have other options, like Netlify CMS, Spinal CMS, Siteleaf, Forestry, or CloudCannon. Some of these also need you to use static site generator (like 11ty, Jekyll, or Hugo).

If you have some server-side scripting support available (typically PHP) you can also consider some flat-file based, server-side systems, like Kirby CMS or Lektor, which are usually simpler to retrofit into an existing template than “traditional” CMSs (WordPress, Drupal).

Finally, you could also use a desktop-based static site generator which provides a user-friendly GUI, and then locally generates and uploads the website. For example Publii, YouDoCMS, Agit CMS.

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11ty Integrations

DatoCMS, Strapi, Onboardbase, Spinal CMS, Kinsta Static Site Hosting and 1 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with 11ty. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with 11ty.

DatoCMS
DatoCMS
Strapi
Strapi
Onboardbase
Onboardbase
Spinal CMS
Spinal CMS
Kinsta Static Site Hosting
Kinsta Static Site Hosting
Pages CMS
Pages CMS

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