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Eleventy By Example

By : Bryan Robinson
Book Image

Eleventy By Example

By: Bryan Robinson

Overview of this book

11ty is the dark horse of the Jamstack world, offering unparalleled flexibility and performance that gives it an edge against other static site generators such as Jekyll and Hugo. With it, developers can leverage the complete Node ecosystem and create blazing-fast, static-first websites that can be deployed from a content delivery network or a simple server. This book will teach you how to set up, customize, and make the most of 11ty in no time. Eleventy by Example helps you uncover everything you need to create your first 11ty website before diving into making more complex sites and extending 11ty’s base functionality with custom short codes, plugins, and content types. Over the course of 5 interactive projects, you’ll learn how to build basic websites, blogs, media sites, and static sites that will respond to user input without the need for a server. With these, you’ll learn basic 11ty skills such as templates, collections, and data use, along with advanced skills such as plugin creation, image manipulation, working with a headless CMS, and the use of the powerful 11ty Serverless plugin. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage the capabilities of 11ty by implementing best practices and reusable techniques that can be applied across multiple projects, reducing the website launch time.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Technical requirements

This chapter starts the fourth project of the book. In order to follow along, you’ll need to clone the start directory from the companion repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Eleventy-by-Example.

This project start has a few more additions to what has gone into the last two projects. While the blog and photography projects had you set up a collection from scratch for the posts, we won’t rehash that need in this chapter. This project comes with an episode directory with the first episode and all the data needed to have the episode pages built by default. Each episode has a frontmatter variable named audioUrl that contains the path to the file in the project. This variable is used in an HTML audio player that is created as an include in the project.

There’s also an additional assets directory named media that contains an MP3 used for testing throughout this chapter. This can be replaced with your own content or added to for...