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Discussion on: Introducing the 11ty Netlify Jumpstart

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Eva - includeJS.dev 🎈

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! 💪