Switching From Jekyll to 11ty

After using Jekyll for years for both my personal website and as my go to solution for other web projects I'm glad to say I've moved over to 11ty.

The reason for the move started while I was working on a new project I was putting together to post on my website. After adding a few images to my websites folder I wrote the command to build out the site and I waited... and waited.. and then my computer froze. After about a minute my website finally generated. At first I thought it was a hardware issue because I'm was using an older computer but after running some similar tests on some of my newer higher end PC's I realized it wasn't a problem with my computer at all.

After a while of doing some research on static site generators and the languages they're built with I started to realized that I had been using a software that wasn't really meant for what I was trying to make it do. Up until recently most of the things I had been making with jekyll where smaller and didn't really have a ton of pages or extra code. These types of projects work really well with Jekyll because the language Jekyll is built on Ruby while very reliable is not as fast as some of the new options availibel today The things is now that I've gotten a little more seiours about website development I've been making more content.

Some Of Jekyll's Limitation

up until recently I only ever really used Jekyll for smaller websites and seo projects. Now that I'm building larger websites it's been taking longer and longer to compile my website.

Looking For Alternatives

I started to look for alternatives and the more I looked the more overwhelmed I got about choosing one. In the back of my mind all I wanted was a static site generator that generated as quick as possible but the more I thought about it the more I was able to narrow down some of the.

Why I Chose 11ty

While it has been a bit of a headache adapting to this new static site generator it has gone relatively well and I'm quite surprised by the speed and features.

I chose 11ty for a few reasons but the main one is for it's speed.

From what I've read online it seems that Jekyll is built using older technology. Compare that to 11ty that's built with JavaScript and builds website almost instantaneously.