Firehose 1,608
2019
Code comfort: Eleventy and webpack
Show conditional Twitter intents with Eleventy
Encourage users to retweet or share a post based on whether a Tweet already exists for your blog post.
By Sia Karamalegos (13 posts)
Fractal and Eleventy: Getting static sites closer to the design system
For the Visual Framework 2.0 component system we recommend Eleventy for static sites: Eleventy sites get direct access to component templates with associated metadata and a focused component library.
By Ken Hawkins (3 posts)
Integrating Eleventy with gulp, upstream JS
Eleventy notes that it, "works great with data — use both front matter and external data files" but the static site generator stops short of working well with upstream in-memory data objects for local development.
By Ken Hawkins (3 posts)
Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr
Migrating from WordPress to Eleventy
Why I'm Digging Eleventy
Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Language switcher for multilingual JAMstack sites
Following my blogpost on multilingual websites with Eleventy, I had several questions about how to build a language switcher. Here is the approach I generally use.
By Jérôme Coupé (10 posts)
Why I left Hugo for Eleventy
Only weeks after telling you I was sticking with Hugo, I switch to Eleventy: the whys and wherefores.
By Bryce Wray (26 posts)
Flexible tag-like functionality for custom keys in Eleventy
Achieving tag-like functionality without using tags in Eleventy
By Laurence Hughes (4 posts)
What I Like About Eleventy
Over the last month so, I’ve been working with Dr. Julian Jones to port some design system projects from Jekyll over to Eleventy, the feral possum of static site generators. Why undertake a whole replatforming initiative? Well, there were two primary issues we were trying to solve:
By Dave Rupert (1 post)
Consuming a headless CMS GraphQL API with Eleventy
With Eleventy, consuming data coming from a GraphQL API to generate static pages is as straightforward as using Markdown files.
By Jérôme Coupé (10 posts)
Creating an 11ty Plugin - SVG Embed Tool
In the sites I’ve built with Eleventy (11ty) recently, I’ve found myself reusing a couple filters. This has involved me copying and pasting the code a lot. The solution? Create an 11ty Plugin.
By Bryan Robinson (15 posts)
Scheduled and draft 11ty posts
This post explains how you can add scheduled publishing to your 11ty blog (with a bonus for drafts). Before I jump in though, 11ty is a surprisingly simple sys…
By Remy Sharp (2 posts)
Create an Eleventy (11ty) theme based on a free HTML template
In this video series, we'll take a look at what it takes to start with a free HTML template found on Google and convert it for use with a static site generator (SSG). We'll be using my personal favorite SSG 11ty (EleventyJS).
By Bryan Robinson (15 posts)
Use Eleventy to generate a Ghost blog
Last night I had a thought: What if I could source a Ghost blog from the Ghost Content API and then generate a static blog all inside of Eleventy?
By David Darnes (5 posts)
Multilingual sites with Eleventy
Eleventy might not have multilingual and localisation capabilities out of the box, but you can build a pretty good setup using global data files, collections and Nunjucks as a templating language.
By Jérôme Coupé (10 posts)
Implementing categories
I take things apart to understand how they work, then write about what I learned. Mostly Git, static sites, LLMs, and the occasional CSS hack.
By Philip Borenstein (2 posts)
Working with collections
I take things apart to understand how they work, then write about what I learned. Mostly Git, static sites, LLMs, and the occasional CSS hack.
By Philip Borenstein (2 posts)
Using Webmentions in Eleventy
How to pull interactions from social media platforms like Twitter back to your own site, using Webmentions, webmention.io and Bridgy.
By Max Böck (8 posts)
Deploying an 11ty Site to GitHub Pages
I am building a new personal site. The idea behind it is pretty simple: it’s a blog that will have a total of 50 pages added to it over 5 years. Not much content and not much complexity. I deba...
By Jonathan Snook (2 posts)