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11ty vs Gatsby: What are the differences?
What is 11ty? A simpler static site generator. 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..
What is Gatsby? Free, open source framework for building blazing fast websites and apps with React. Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
11ty and Gatsby can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.
Gatsby is an open source tool with 36.2K GitHub stars and 5.41K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gatsby's open source repository on GitHub.
As a Frontend Developer I wanted something simple to generate static websites with technology I am familiar with. GatsbyJS was in the stack I am familiar with, does not need any other languages / package managers and allows quick content deployment in pure HTML or Markdown (what you prefer for a project). It also does not require you to understand a theming engine if you need a custom design.
Pros of 11ty
- Flexibility on choosing template4
- Content decoupled as much as possible from Eleventy3
- Flexible, allows progressive conversion of templates3
- Great use of data files/sources3
- Zero boilerplate client-side JavaScript2
Pros of Gatsby
- Generated websites are super fast28
- Fast16
- GraphQL15
- Progressive Web Apps generation10
- Easy to connect with lots of CMS via official plugins9
- Reusable components (React)9
- Allows to use markdown files as articles7
- Static-sites5
- All the benefits of a static website + React+GraphQL5
- Images5
- List of starters as base for new project4
- Easy to connect with Drupal via official plugin3
- Open source3
- Gitlab pages integration1
- Incremental Build1
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Cons of 11ty
Cons of Gatsby
- No ssr6
- Very slow builds3
- Documentation isn't complete.3
- For-profit2
- Slow builds2
- Flash of unstyled content issues2
- Problematic between develop and build commands1
- Difficult debugging1
- Too many dependencies1
- Plugin driven development1
- Difficult maintenance1
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