We launched Firefox Extension Workshop, using the Ruby-based static site generator Jekyll, and then realized that we needed to find an alternative and port the site.
Paul Lloyd assembles a heavenly host of cherubs to sing the virtues of the Eleventy static site generator. By looking at how it compares to the familiar Ruby-based Jekyll (which we have espoused the virtues of here before), he may have you humming its tune for this season’s holiday projects. But will it put you on cloud eleven?
We launched Firefox Extension Workshop, using the Ruby-based static site generator Jekyll, and then realized that we needed to find an alternative and port the site.
Without too much pain, I am now solely using Node.js to build this blog, and improve it along the way.
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
A retrospective on migrating this website from Jekyll to Eleventy