Very opiniated Eleventy starter based on the workflow suggested by Andy Bell's https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/.
https://eleventy-excellent.netlify.app/
This starter includes:
- The whole CSS workflow as suggested by buildexcellentwebsit.es
- Accessible site navigation, editable in _data/navigation.js
- Image optimization with Eleventy-img (see blog post)
- Youtube embed with lite-youtube (see blog post)
- Syntax highlighting via eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight
- SEO (XML-sitemap, metadata)
- dayjs handling dates & times
- 301 redirects for netlify
- markdown handling
- Bundling via esbuild
- Search and replace 'eleventy-excellent.netlify.app' with your own domain.
- Set your icons in assets/images/favicon
- edit meta data in _data/meta.js
- edit your social media in _data/social.js and _includes/icons. Icons must be prefixed with "social-".
- delete _data/github.js and pages/github.njk, as they are just an example
- changed routes:
redirectFrom: ['/old-route/', '/optionally-another-old-route/']
npm install
Starts watch tasks to compile when changes detected
npm start
Minify JS, inline and minify CSS.
npm run build
Adding blog posts for feature explanation.
WebC in own branch, simplify main branch
- first commit. Updated
- All markdown syntax set. Some tests with web components and webC.
- TODO: dark mode
Andy Bell
His CSS methodology makes sense to me. It also goes hand in hand with the Every Layout solutions he co-authors. An ardent opponent of the utility class framework Tailwind CSS. But has recently published an approach that incorporates Tailwind CSS into his methodology. This is built into my website and I'm working on tweaking it. I learned how to use Eleventy in 2020 with his (now free) course.
Heydon Pickering
I strongly orientate myself on Heydon's approaches and love his books.
Zach Leatherman
He is developing Eleventy.
Stephanie Eckles
She 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/
Oliver Schöndorfer
Oliver is a type expert. He writes the Pimp my Type Newsletter where I dscovered the font I'm using for this website.
Manuel Matuzović
Manuel is an accessibility expert. The menu I'm using is from one of his articles on web.dev.