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Issue 78 - Why it's called Eleventy, 11ty Meetup 9/17, Speaking of CMS's, The ZeroPoint starter, Vento 2 has arrived, Performance debugging?, Components on the island...
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A note from Bob:
I said these would be monthly, and here we are on Sep 11, as scheduled. But with the passage of more time between issues, awesome people have been busy cranking out a ton of new stuff, as you'll see in this issue.
If you want to skip the preliminaries and get right to the releases or the posts, or the sites, have at it.
Enjoy!
Highlights
Why it's called Eleventy. Curious about the name? Here's the story, complete with hardcopy archival documentation. Grab a tissue.
11ty Meetup 9/17. Join us for episode 26 of the 11ty Meetup. Alex Hoyau will demo how Silex can be used to build 11ty sites visually. And Jessie with show us 11tyCMS, a "local, serverless, dependable" CMS for 11ty.
Speaking of CMS's. I recently discovered Sveltia CMS, "a Git-based lightweight headless CMS under active development as a modern, powerful drop-in replacement for Netlify CMS and Decap CMS." And, while a little dated, Dan Urbanowicz, created an 11ty starter with it.
The ZeroPoint starter. Michael Delaney showcases ZeroPoint, "A free, user-friendly static website generator starter project," supporting GitHub Pages and Netlify.
Vento 2 has arrived. Vento, "a modern, ergonomic, and async-friendly template engine for Javascript," has a new major release. Read about Vento 2 and its new features. And since some in this community have written about it, there's now a Vento category here on the bundle.
Performance debgugging? If you're wondering how long each of your pages are taking to render, Zach reminds us of the Directory Output โ Eleventy feature that's built right into 11ty.
Components on the island. If you're looking for a way to "add interactive client-side components to your web site," look no further than <is-land>. And v5.0.0 has just been released.
Until next time...