Hey Stephanie, quick question: if you were building a static agency website today (main requirement: speed & performance&SEO, CMS is an extra), would you build it with 11ty or gatsby? 🤔 (or something else?)
It's really hard to beat the performance and flexibility of 11ty - unless you actually need React features.
I manage a quite complicated Gatsby site and I feel I ended up with a lot of overhead to get things to correctly "talk" to each other to compile correctly on the page, vs. 11ty where I can throw all sort of pieces and bits at a template and it just works.
The static HTML 11ty delivers is going to effortlessly result in speed and performance with the flexibility to source from any CMS or data source of any kind.
SEO in either case has a bit of manual work but can be templated.
The things that Gatsby offers you are a head start for things React doesn't come with like routing, and also offers GraphQL for interfacing with data sources.
The way 11ty handles data is so flexible it's why I fell in love with it. Plus the template language compiling of 11ty enables writing markdown next to HTML with a third templating language thrown in and you can on a whim compile out to anything you want, like json or XML which is like 🤯
Thank you so much for the elaborate answer, Stephanie!
Yes, I feel Gatsby is an overkill for what I need. Definitely don't need React or graphql and you are totally right about 11ty and data handling (like how you can have glob data and it just automatically gets picked up, or you can have an individual data file for each of your files 🤯)
I'm using gatsby for my personal site and I remember that it was rather troublesome to get the blog tags going, with 11ty it was so easy (just looping through a collection!).
Seems Gatsby wins if you need to do a lot of customization done quickly - so you can go with plugins/themes - and I've read something about image handling being pretty basic in 11ty, but yeah, in terms of usability 11ty wins!
Super looking forward to discussing this with you live on Twitch! 💪
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Hey Stephanie, quick question: if you were building a static agency website today (main requirement: speed & performance&SEO, CMS is an extra), would you build it with 11ty or gatsby? 🤔 (or something else?)
It's really hard to beat the performance and flexibility of 11ty - unless you actually need React features.
I manage a quite complicated Gatsby site and I feel I ended up with a lot of overhead to get things to correctly "talk" to each other to compile correctly on the page, vs. 11ty where I can throw all sort of pieces and bits at a template and it just works.
The static HTML 11ty delivers is going to effortlessly result in speed and performance with the flexibility to source from any CMS or data source of any kind.
SEO in either case has a bit of manual work but can be templated.
The things that Gatsby offers you are a head start for things React doesn't come with like routing, and also offers GraphQL for interfacing with data sources.
The way 11ty handles data is so flexible it's why I fell in love with it. Plus the template language compiling of 11ty enables writing markdown next to HTML with a third templating language thrown in and you can on a whim compile out to anything you want, like json or XML which is like 🤯
Thank you so much for the elaborate answer, Stephanie!
Yes, I feel Gatsby is an overkill for what I need. Definitely don't need React or graphql and you are totally right about 11ty and data handling (like how you can have glob data and it just automatically gets picked up, or you can have an individual data file for each of your files 🤯)
I've been following this: rphunt.github.io/eleventy-walkthro... and it's been a superb guide so far.
I'm using gatsby for my personal site and I remember that it was rather troublesome to get the blog tags going, with 11ty it was so easy (just looping through a collection!).
Seems Gatsby wins if you need to do a lot of customization done quickly - so you can go with plugins/themes - and I've read something about image handling being pretty basic in 11ty, but yeah, in terms of usability 11ty wins!
Super looking forward to discussing this with you live on Twitch! 💪