Meet:

🥷 Bladeswitch

The only starter compatible with BOTH (!) Jekyll⇋Eleventy at the same time.

It allows you to develop locally without Ruby friction (thanks to 11ty), and deploy natively to GitHub Pages using built-in Jekyll engine — no GitHub Actions required!

Now, also includes Sveltia CMS. All of this — with only 3 direct dependencies:

Minimal dependencies

🥷 × Jekyll ^PREVIEW	🥷 × Eleventy ^PREVIEW
1. pages-gem-jekyll ^{via Gemfile}	1. eleventy-bricks ^{via package.json}
2. bricks-theme ^{as remote_theme via _config.yml or via package.json for 11ty}
3. pico.css optional ^{from CDN via _data/site.yml}

🥷 × Jekyll ^PREVIEW

🥷 × Eleventy ^PREVIEW

1. pages-gem-jekyll
^{via Gemfile}

1. eleventy-bricks
^{via package.json}

2. bricks-theme
^{as remote_theme via _config.yml or via package.json for 11ty}

3. pico.css optional
^{from CDN via _data/site.yml}

Quick start

A. Natively, w/o GitHub Actions:

Using Jekyll on GitHub Pages

Click ↑ to init your own repo.
Go to ⚙️ Settings → Pages.
Set Branch to main and Save.

B. Fully preconfigured:

Using Eleventy on Netlify

All you need

_data/site.yml              # YOUR site-wide metadata
_includes/default.liquid    # YOUR layout template
*.md                        # YOUR content (editable via CMS!)

Under the hood

Gemfile                     # Jekyll gems
_config.yml                 # Jekyll config
package.json                # 11ty packages
admin/                      # Sveltia CMS configs

More info

Repo: /anydigital/bladeswitch

Advanced usage: /anydigital/sveleven for 11ty+.njk+Tailwind

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