🌻 Smix

A gulp-based starter for Static Site Generators, preconfigured for @11ty/eleventy and Forestry CMS

Framework

♥ Eleventy 0.11.0 out of the box
- Date filters for a friendly version such as 10 March 2020, and ISO8601 (also RFC822 compatible)
- getUrl shortcode similar to Jekyll's post_url and link liquid tags
- Custom rendering engine for HTML files - Liquid v9
  - Adds support for missing filters such as where and improves performance
🛋 Preconfigured for Forestry CMS.
- Sign up, log in, look for the Deploy admin option.
- Everything else is set up for you already. :)
💁Indie publishing and reading experience
- microformats2 support for h-card, h-entry, and h-feed out of the box
👩‍💻 Modern JavaScript
- Transpilation via Babel
  - Support for ES2015 JavaScript syntax
  - Support for ES2017 async/await syntax
- Module bundling via Browserify
🎨 PostCSS
- Includes: imports, nesting, purge, minification, autoprefixer
- TailwindCSS, configured to strip out unused classes from production builds
- Easily build a dark mode using the included dm screen type: dm:bg-gray-900
🔍 SEO and more
- Meta tags for social networks (Open Graph/Twitter)
- Sitemap with changeFrequency; robots.txt (please also see issue #7)
- An Atom feed with support for both published and updated dates on articles
- Support for content-description meta tag
📖 A sane fonts setup
- The font-sans class is configured to use system-default fonts
- Include fonts locally for enhanced privacy of your visitors
- typeset for professional looking content
💪 Minified assets on production
📔 Prettier and editorconfig
🔧 Modular gulp task files for easy configuration and modification

To-Do

Reload automatically after our assets change (filed issue here, waiting for response/PR approval). Please reload manually for now.
Webmentions, incoming and outgoing, only from/to other IndieWeb sites
System default serif font class
Scheduled blog posts
Lazy-load images
Responsive images

ghiata/.com

🌻 Smix

Framework

To-Do

How to Use

Local Development

Production