Eleventy vs a Hand-Rolled Build
Having built the same small site both ways, once on Eleventy and once on a single hand-rolled script, I want to lay the two side by side honestly. Neither is wrong. They just fail…
Building things and writing down what the building taught me. Static sites, small tools, and the occasional strong opinion.
Having built the same small site both ways, once on Eleventy and once on a single hand-rolled script, I want to lay the two side by side honestly. Neither is wrong. They just fail…
I started this site the way I start most things: with a folder and a vague plan. This time the plan was to lean on Eleventy and let it do the boring parts, and I came away happy en…
Before I settled on a generator, I built a version of this site with nothing but a single Node script. No framework, no plugins, just a file called build.mjs. It was a good exercis…