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Eleventy static sites

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- I'm going to show you 11ty, which is a library for publishing sites that's a lot easier to set up than Jekyll if you want more control over your static sites. Now, the first big advantage to 11ty is that it's based on Node.js versus Ruby, so it's more common for developers to understand how to use. It's also a zero config framework by default and that means that you don't need to configure it, but it does have a full set of options if you need them. Now, the other cool thing is that it is very flexible in terms of the languages and templating libraries that it works with. It understands Liquid, which has Jekyll's templating engine, but also Nunjucks, Handlebars, regular JavaScript and more. If you want to learn more about Liquid, make sure you check out this website. You can see that Liquid is used by Jekyll and supported by some of these other companies and it was originally created by Shopify. If you want to learn…

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