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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)

Understanding the special requirements for a podcast site

While a podcast’s website may seem on the surface to be just another website, the data requirements to push that content out to multiple platforms are a bit more complex. In order to be on multiple podcast repositories, a podcast needs to have a properly formatted RSS feed with specific data for both the podcast as well as each episode.

This requires additional data and specific formats for the data.

Since we typically build for the web, we usually keep our URLs as relative paths for the project, such as /episodes/my-first-episode/. These work perfectly for how the web works. Each browser knows this is relative to the root domain of the website the user is viewing. When pushing your content out to additional places, the paths need to be absolute, such as https://mypodcast.com/episodes/my-first-episode/.

Podcast applications also have additional requirements for data and formatting, such as the following:

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