oversuman / pack11ty

[ Pack11ty ]

Pack11ty is an heavily opinionated Eleventy starter (aka "template project").

If you're in a hurry, try one of these quick options:

There are many other options for installation/deployment.

Feel free to use it, enhance it, and share your ideas/comments with issues, or (even better) pull requests.

Key features

A plugin

The Pack11ty plugin (eleventy-plugin-pack11ty) provides many features out of the box, which you can enjoy on any Eleventy project:

• Collections built automatically from root folders, with pagination for yearly and monthly archives
• Navigation configuration
• JavaScript and Sass/CSS assets optimized for performance
  • inline critical JavaScript and CSS
  • external and asynchronous additional JavaScript and CSS, with hashes for cache busting
  • JavaScript, CSS and HTML built separately
  • Dev mode with live reload
• Responsive images built from simple Markdown and presets
• Enhanced Markdown thanks to an extensive set of Markdown-it plugins for better contribution: footnotes, attributes, headings anchors, abbreviations, containers
• A set of Eleventy filters and shortcodes are provided, including an enhanced slugify
• A simple and responsible way to share YouTube videos

A template repository

Additionnaly, the Pack11ty template repository (pack11ty) helps starting a new project from scratch with even more nice features:

• Responsive Layout without any Media Query, thanks to CSS Flexible Box Layout (Flexbox) and layouts from Every Layout
• A default configuration for responsive images
• PWA for performance, installation and offline support
  • Service Worker with pre-caching of UI assets, auto caching of visited pages and offline fallback
  • Manifest for PWA installation
• Indieweb
  • Support for receiving Webmentions
  • Atom feed for all collections combined
• More default containers: success, warning, error
• Etc.

Would you like to know more?

Read the full documentation on pack11ty.dev!

Do you have different needs?

No problem, there are many other Eleventy starters available.