eleventy 🕚⚡️ VS Jade

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

I suggest you to try out eleventhy (https://www.11ty.dev/)

Quite simple to start, and a nice system to add some scripting and styles without the requirement of bringing in a framework.

A production flag enables you to run activities in dev or production such as minifying assets, showing draft posts, etc. There isn't a built-in flag or function that comes with eleventy (11ty) specifically for this. However we have this info at our fingertips.

I can't recommend Eleventy enough!

https://www.11ty.dev

I converted my WordPress blog to Eleventy 4 years ago and never looked back, it's been delightful!

https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/

It’s 2024, and you are about to start a new project. Do you reach for React, a framework you know and love or do you look at one of the other hot new frameworks like Astro, Enhance, 11ty, SvelteKit or gasp, plain vanilla Web Components?

The "dev" script is running the eleventy server in dev mode. The details of the script are not important for this discussion, but to round out the background here is an abbreviated version of my package.json:

Eleventy is a fast and powerful SSG that really shines when it comes to pure static site generation because it does not require the loading of a client-side JavaScript bundle in order to serve content.

The irony is using a JavaScript-based static site generator to make the site: https://www.11ty.dev

https://doublejosh.com/post/186193119278/metalsmithjs-is-sti...

Then two years ago I needed a more robust SSR system based on React, so I went with GatsbyJS. It's insanely mature and intuitive, but as we all know that community and business is now drying up too. But the framework is still great.

Now everyone sings the praises of NextJS, which can be used for SSR but is intended for applications and active server endpoints. But more complexity doesn't mean better.

I'm keen to try other simple frameworks when the result is a static site. I may give https://www.11ty.dev a shot.

11ty is a lightweight static site generator. I chopped up my HTML and used the 11ty starter template called eleventy-base-blog as the structural foundation for the site.

If you have a bit of Nodejs SSR background, you would already be accustomed to templating libraries like Pug, Handlebars, EJS, etc. If you’re from a PHP background you would be familiar with the Blade templating engine. These templating libraries basically help you render dynamic data from the backend on the frontend. They also help you generate markup with loops based on conditions.

The right way to start is with HTML and motherfucking web site.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Really. At this point this is what web sites should strive to be.

Pug is a great way to write HTML by hand. I integrated it with GitHub Pages so pug sources get compiled to HTML and published when commits are pushed. Great experience.

https://pugjs.org/

https://github.com/pugjs/pug

To illustrate the process of migrating from Express to Fastify, we have prepared a demo application. This application utilizes Express, Mongoose, and Pug to create a URL Shortener app as follows:

Disclaimer: The markup of CodePen examples is still in Pug. However, you can view it compiled as HTML by opening the code tab menu and selecting "View compiled HTML" (But, by the way, if you are not already familiar with Pug Templates, I strongly advise you to check them out).

I've been using Pug.js (https://github.com/pugjs/pug) for quite a few projects in the past but when I went to look at it yesterday it looks like it's no longer in active development. Lots of open issues and no response where someone asks what happened.

Hi folks I'm wondering if someone of you is a Django developer who also use pug for templates? Anyone?

I'm sorry about your doggie, but you have the wrong subreddit. The Pug template engine https://pugjs.org/ is discussed here exclusively. Dogs are not discussed here.

The pug support for my projects is the last step for final migration from VSCode to Helix - any suggestions as to what existing language can be used as a basis for adaptation?