I initially went with Jekyll as the most mature community, but felt sort of hamstrung by the fact that I don't know Ruby 😅. I decided to try a JS-based one.
I looked hard at Gatsby, but it seemed like a bit much for what I wanted to do.
I downloaded a Hexo example and played with it a little, but the whole theming thing was sort of a turnoff--for me it's easier to just write my own CSS (not that you can't turn off the theming in Hexo; it just seemed like most of the documentation/tooling was geared toward someone who likes their default theming system).
I settled on Eleventy. The documentation is a little light because it's a young community (you won't find as many StackOverflow answers, for example, compared to something like Jekyll), but it's dead simple to use and it seems like they've done a good job of establishing simple, sensible defaults while allowing as much customization as you want.
You got me thinking, I was inclined to believe that Gatsby was the greatest thing since sliced bread but in many cases it's just overkill, I've heard good things about Eleventy so I definitely want to check it out as a plausible alternative.
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You got me thinking, I was inclined to believe that Gatsby was the greatest thing since sliced bread but in many cases it's just overkill, I've heard good things about Eleventy so I definitely want to check it out as a plausible alternative.