This is a recording of a talk I presented at the 11ty Meetup on February 4th, 2026. I tell the story of how I used Eleventy to quickly add a blog to an existing website and application originally built with Laravel. It worked so seamlessly, I went from request to working solution in about 30 minutes. After a year and a half of use, what initially felt like an unusual idea has turned out to be rather pleasant to work with.
I think there's a lot of unexplored territory when it comes to combining the simplicity of a static site generator and the power of a full application framework. By mixing and matching tools I believe it's not only possible, but in many cases preferable, to manage a website's content without a monolithic CMS like Wordpress. Instead, we build content management functionality in pieces, constructing the website in such a way that it does the heavy lifting of pulling disparate sources together for you.
I've started referring to this as "Incremental Content Management".
This 30-minute talk focuses on one example of this approach.
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