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Eleventy starter
Opiniated but easy to use Eleventy starter, based on the workflow suggested by Andy Bell's buildexcellentwebsit.es.
If you end up using this starter, feel free to send me a link, I'd love to see it! Also let me know if you miss any features. Currently in planning: automatically generated OpenGraph images (as fallback) and dark mode.
Preview
https://eleventy-excellent.netlify.app/
Features
This starter includes:
- The whole CSS workflow as suggested by buildexcellentwebsit.es
- Accessible site navigation, editable in
src/_data/navigation.js - Image optimization with Eleventy-img (see blog post)
- Youtube embed with lite-youtube (see blog post)
- Easy resource fetching with eleventy-fetch (see blog post)
- Syntax highlighting via eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight (see blog post)
- SEO basics (XML-sitemap, metadata)
- dayjs handling dates & times
- 301 redirects for Netlify
- Advanced markdown handling
- Bundling via esbuild
- RSS feed
- Links to social networks in footer
- Mastodon domain verification snippet
First steps
- Important: edit meta data in
src/_data/meta.js, it's being used all over the template. - Search for 'eleventy-excellent.netlify.app'. You'll find an entry in
src/assets/css/global/global-styles.css. Replace with your own domain. - Edit your social media in
src/_data/social.jsandsrc/_includes/icons. If you add new icons they must be prefixed with "social-". By default you have rss, mastodon, twitter, ko-fi, linkedin and github. Great resource: https://lucide.dev/ - Not required, but recommended: Delete
github.jsinsrc/_data/github.jsand the blog posts, as these serve only as an example. - Edit your preferences (colors, fluid text sizes etc.) in
src/assets/css/design-tokens. - Optional: set your (favicon) icons in
src/assets/images/favicon.
Deploy directly to Netlify
Development
Install dependencies
npm install
Working locally
Starts watch tasks to compile when changes detected
npm start
Creating a production build
Minify JS, inline and minify CSS.
npm run build
Logbook
22-11-24
- updated required node version in package.json
- meta.js now controls most of the templates defaults
- added RSS feed, because of course!!
- made twitter and other meta data OPTIONAL
- added Mastodon verification and more social icon defaults
- focus-within for the cards
22-11-04
- added blog posts for feature explanation
22-10-30
- WebC in own branch
- simplify main branch
22-10-04
- all markdown syntax set
22-10-03
- first commit. Updated
Credits and Thank yous
Andy Bell
His CSS methodology "CUBE" makes sense to me. It goes hand in hand with Every Layout (which he co-authors). He has recently published an approach that incorporates Tailwind CSS into his methodology. Also, I learned how to use Eleventy in 2020 with his (now free) course.
Heydon Pickering
I strongly orientate myself on Heydon's approaches and really love his books.
Zach Leatherman
He is developing Eleventy and is constantly making it even better!
Stephanie Eckles
Stephanie provides a lot of resources for Eleventy and modern CSS.
Aleksandr Hovhannisyan
I love order and structure. Aleksandr does this in an exemplary way, which is why I based the structure of eleventy.js on his personal site. The 301 redirect solution I'm using is from his blog.
- https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan
- https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/eleventy-netlify-redirects/
Manuel Matuzović
Manuel is an accessibility expert. The menu I'm using is from one of his articles on web.dev.