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11ty vs Metalsmith: What are the differences?
Developers describe 11ty as "A simpler static site generator". A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.. On the other hand, Metalsmith is detailed as "An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator". In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files.
11ty and Metalsmith can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.
Some of the features offered by 11ty are:
- uses independent template engines
- works with your project’s existing directory structure
- works with multiple template languages
On the other hand, Metalsmith provides the following key features:
- Read template files from a directory
- Parse files for template placeholders
- Prompt user to fill in each placeholder
Metalsmith is an open source tool with 7.27K GitHub stars and 640 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Metalsmith's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of 11ty
- Flexibility on choosing template4
- Great use of data files/sources3
- Flexible, allows progressive conversion of templates3
- Content decoupled as much as possible from Eleventy3
- Zero boilerplate client-side JavaScript2
Pros of Metalsmith
- Plugability9
- Easy to install, easy to hack, easy to deploy4
- Really works hard to be simple2
- Chain plugins like a file processing pipe1
- CI: push to github, auto-deploy to netlifly (free)1
- Build any kind of website1
- Use any templating engine1