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Discussion on: What tech did you use to build your personal website/portfolio? 2020 Edition!

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Karel De Smet

I use Eleventy for my personal website kareldesmet.be and am hosting it on Netlify. The deployment process on Netlify was smooth as silk. And I love Eleventy because you get a lot of the "oomph" from Gatsby or similar solutions, but without a lot of the "aargh". Admittedly, this is based on a very limited effort to give those others SSG's a go, so I'm contemplating that mastergatsby.com course from Wes Bos.

Nonetheless, I'm thinking about migrating it back to a server-side rendered (Node.js) solution, just to get some more experience in that domain.

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Jacob Baker

Ooo I've not heard of Eleventy, I'll have to check it out. Definitely had a lot of 'aargh' with Gatsby but that has mostly been down to configuring plugins and a couple of gotchas. When it works though it is a pleasure to use!

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Karel De Smet

Definitely do! I think most people will be pleased by the simplicity of it, whilst still having a lot of options to get where you want to go.