blogkit-notion-starter VS eleventy 🕚⚡️

Notion starter template (One-click deploy)

I recently migrated my personal website from Next.js to 11ty, it was a great experience, which I will write more about in a later blog post.

If you're looking to start a blog (or if you're thinking of redesigning yours although you haven't posted in 2 years), you'll stumble upon a lot of options and it can be incredibly daunting; and if you stumble with the newest Josh's post about his stack it is easy to feel overwhelmed with the shown stack.

I also proposed using Bootstrap with https://www.11ty.dev for the templates. It's much easier to update a JSON file than to work with WordPress.

By using relative paths for assets and loading Bootstrap from a CDN, I can zip the website and share it via email.

I made a new branch of my website and followed the instructions in the v3.0.0-beta.1 release notes:

I write and create my posts using markdown, this is then converted to html with 11ty engine. The layout of the page are decided by the metadata in the front matter section, 11ty the uses the layouts I have created using Nunjucks. This way I can add metadata and control how the page is rendered, I can inject sections and links.

Eleventy. It’s a static site generator that’s super stable, they take backwards compatibility ver seriously so you can count on it for a long time. It’s lightweight so you don’t have to install a million dependencies to get it working, and it’s the only one of the big SSG projects that’s independently funded so they’re not chasing VC backed hyper growth.

https://www.11ty.dev/

Depends on your language of choice. Personally I use Eleventy[0]. Written in JavaScript (so you'll need node & npm). Has very minimal default settings but highly configurable. Pick your templates or just use markdown if you really want. Hot reloading is enabled by default.

[0]: https://www.11ty.dev

We will use Eleventy as a static site generator of choice and Netlify Drop for free hosting. Of course, this is not the only combination; feel free to use any tool and hosting you like. One of the cool things about Eleventy is that it supports multiple template languages. We’ll use Nunjucks for this tutorial. Don’t worry if you haven’t used it before. For this tutorial, basic HTML knowledge is enough!

Now that you're familiar with why Eleventy + Storyblok is my ideal combination and how to seamlessly query data from Storyblok for use in an Eleventy project, it's time for the next exciting step: let's embark on creating a complete blog site using these two phenomenal technologies!

This post outlines the steps for migrating an existing BlogCFC blog to a JamStack, with a focus on using Eleventy.