Eleventy vs Gulp Site

Eleventy and Gulp Site are both open source static site generators written in JavaScript, but that's where the similarities end. See the full comparison of Eleventy and Gulp Site.

Property Eleventy Gulp Site
Language JavaScript JavaScript
Templates Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, JavaScript, HTML, Markdown Handlebars
License MIT ISC

Eleventy benefits

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.

Gulp Site benefits

This is a simple static site generator which is perfect for a personal, blog or documentation site.

It is similar to other static site generators in that it takes your Markdown content, renders it, optimises it and creates a production-ready site that can be served by Nginx, Apache or another web server.

Features

  • Convert Markdown files to static HTML
  • Handlebars templates and partials
  • Sass compiling and minification
  • Css reducing (Uncss)
  • Javascript concatenating and minification
  • Asset copying
  • Image compression
  • HTML compression
  • RSS feed creation
  • Server for viewing built site
  • Clobber for cleaning build directory
  • Save content as draft
  • Convert draft templates
  • Creates a build/ directory with built content and assets