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11ty vs Middleman: What are the differences?
11ty: 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.; Middleman: A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.
11ty and Middleman belong to "Static Site Generators" category of the tech stack.
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, Middleman provides the following key features:
- Sass for DRY stylesheets
- CoffeeScript for safer and less verbose javascript
- Multiple asset management solutions, including Sprockets
Middleman is an open source tool with 6.49K GitHub stars and 696 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Middleman'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 Middleman
- Rails for static sites20
- Erb, haml, slim18
- Live reload17
- Easy setup7
- Emacs org-mode integration by middleman-org3
- Make front-end easy and rock solid again1