skinnylatte, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

@irfan I just gave a talk today about how 11ty was the thing I learned that made sense without the gibberish hehe

It works even if you don’t understand the node stuff under the hood (you don’t need it)

I built everything just in html markdown css and I learned nunjucks for templating

The community is also VERY helpful and fun

irfan, 10 days ago

@skinnylatte The biggest "gibberish" to me is whenever people talk about Node/JS bcos almost every other projects I see people recommend online afterwards are just another Node or JS alternatives but faster and leaner and whatever and I GET FOMO bcos I never needed to use any of those for my work :(

11ty seems clean (no nonsense, which I love) but at the same time leaner that prolly would make me integrate these other "ingredients" to my project to make it complete/work.

skinnylatte, 10 days ago

@irfan 11ty has been better than almost every node / js tool like this I’ve used because you really don’t need it that much. A lot of stuff is done out of the box (including image transforms and stuff) and I really only touched JS in the config files

Quite the opposite of the thing you’re describing (which I was happy to find out, coz I don’t like that either!)

skinnylatte, 10 days ago

@irfan but Django is great too!

irfan, 10 days ago

@skinnylatte ahhh sounds perfect then for me to get into and learn. Another I was previously considering to learn was Jekyll, which I guess is sort of like 11ty too?

but yea, I've been meaning to build up a simple personal site where I can post my documentations/blogs and somehow I refuse to build it in Django just bcos I'm too familiar with it at this point for it to not feel like a chore/work so learning and building it with 11ty sounds like a good first step.

🔗 https://jekyllrb.com

skinnylatte, 10 days ago

@irfan they’re very similar. Most of us using 11ty started with Jekyll.

You can give it a try! I really like this resource

https://11ty.rocks/posts/create-your-first-basic-11ty-website/

And if you hashtag it, lots of useful folks around here as well

irfan, 10 days ago

@skinnylatte thank you so much for the quick round-up and resource! 😭 It will be super helpful. And I can tell the community is great, and you too are part of it!

skinnylatte, 10 days ago

@irfan also @bobmonsour runs https://11tybundle.dev which is a great way to get all the blog posts about anything relating to it

With other tools I usually start with a starter then don’t do anything coz I can’t figure it out, but here I was able to build sites from scratch really with just html and css