The best Eleventy alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Eleventy, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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EleventyA simple static site generator that turns folders of templates into HTML pages.
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Jekyll
Open source · MIT · ★ 51.7k
A Ruby tool that turns Markdown and templates into a static website, with blog support.
Best for: Developers who want a blog or simple website built from plain text files; People comfortable with Ruby tooling and the command line
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VuePress
Open source · MIT · ★ 22.7k
A minimal static site generator for docs and blogs, built on Vue (v1, now in maintenance mode).
Best for: Developers with an existing VuePress v1 documentation site who need to keep it running; Teams already comfortable with Vue who want a simple Markdown-to-site tool
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docsify
Open source · MIT · ★ 31.6k
A tool that turns Markdown files into a documentation website with no build step.
Best for: Open-source maintainers who want a documentation site from existing Markdown files; Teams that want docs hosted on GitHub Pages without a build pipeline
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Eleventy. We don't take payment for placement.