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: dark mode, inlining CSS and JS.
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)
- Advanced markdown handling (see blog post)
- 301 redirects for Netlify (see blog post)
- Automatically generated Open Graph images for blog posts (see blog post)
- More features in seperate demo branches (see blog post)
- SEO basics (XML-sitemap, metadata)
- dayjs handling dates & times
- Bundling via esbuild
- RSS feed
- Links to social networks in footer
- Mastodon domain verification snippet
Please read the Get started docs!
npm install
Starts watch tasks to compile when changes detected
npm start
Minify JS, CSS and HTML.
npm run build
Sites that are based on / built with Eleventy Excellent. Add your site by submitting a pull request! :)
23-10-30
- Overall updates
- New blog post: demo pages
23-05-23
There was a weird error on Chrome with flex-wrap in the menus. Also, I updated all sizing properties to logical properties. Instead of featuring the sites built with Eleventy Excellent in the README, I created a page for it. Same goes for Getting started. I deleted the Netlify a11y plugin, as it seems unmaintained.
23-03-24
Extended the "Images" blog post with an example with custom sizes attribute and explained where the CSS can be adjusted.
23-01-26
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Replaced Heydon's redundant click event for cards with his pseudo-content trick solution so we don't lose the context menu.
- https://inclusive-components.design/cards/#theredundantclickevent
+ https://inclusive-components.design/cards/#thepseudocontenttrick
23-01-25
- updated Eleventy
- minor: added automatically generated open graph images for blog posts
23-01-09
- updated Eleventy
- added package version number in footer
22-12-29
- updated Eleventy
- minor: changed CSS for header, not using the sidebar solution anymore. sidebar.css thus deleted. Now the focus for the logo section doesn't expand all the way to the menu anymore.
- Updated and added some
relvalues after reading Alvaro Montoro's excellent article A Theory of Web Relativity. - stripped "noreferrer" from external links in markdown (editable in
config/plugins/markdown.js), because I don't mind the target page of carefully placed links to identify the source of the reference. - added two more pages to the 'built with' section, yay!
- Thought: Now that actually some websites in production are based on this starter, should I create formal release notes?
22-12-20
- Andy now links to his mastodon profile
- Linked blog posts in readme
22-12-13
- added JS and CSS as as first-class citizens in Eleventy, out of the npm scripts.
- imported htmlmin transform, css and js processing with
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(require("other-config-file.js")), see https://front-end.social/@eleventy@fosstodon.org/109501433721579265
22-12-12
- updated head structure for better performance
- added "built with this" section in readme
- added note for internal links in markdown blog post
- adding page based preload option, making preload of monospaced font in posts default to avoid CLS
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
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.
Bernard Nijenhuis
Bernard wrote the article on which the Open Graph Images implementation is based.