Arguments against Eleventy

by Roy Revelt   ·   posted on   ·   a thought

Codsen.com was previously on Eleventy, pure static HTML+CSS, served from the Edge via Cloudflare workers.

The problems with that setup were:

  1. Flashing when navigating between pages
  2. Components written in Nunjucks — not as universal as JSX
  3. Absence of MDX
  4. A poorer DX in general, stemming from Nunjucks itself — for example, compare the Nunjucks and TS linting
  5. Cloudflare Workers can be fragile, the wrangler program which serves the sites is buggy
  6. Being on edge, without a server, doesn’t mean you spend any less than using a server + CDN
  7. Unable to share Nunjucks components in tester web apps driven by Vue

I’m sure most of that could be solved one way or another. But I just outgrew the 11ty baby shirt.

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