mk2-p4nth3rblog VS eleventy 🕚⚡️

Salma - Software engineer, livestream coder and dev educator

Similarly to last year, the day ended with a high-energy, fun talk. Salma Alam-Naylor entertained us with examples of what she streams on Twitch, what it looks like, and what she did before she started in tech. There was so much! Previously, the idea of watching a coding stream didn’t appeal much to me, but after Salma’s talk, I’m tempted to check out her community.

Salma Alam-Naylor, advisor, former DX at Netlify, soon to be somewhere exciting 👀

With a heavy focus on being inclusive and friendly, whitep4nth3r dives into a diverse range of topics around science and technology. They also have a really useful website with a lot of knowledge that I can recommend visiting.

And lastly, you may want to check for multiple referer header values — in which case a single string may not suffice, and you may want to do something like I do on my website.

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.