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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)

Summary

While setting up 11ty via FTP or drag-and-drop is possible, it’s often not ideal. For long-term use, setting up an automated workflow via GitHub and a host with a build pipeline will save large amounts of time and frustration. In this chapter, we covered questions to ask of your hosting providers for ideal static site processes, setting up 11ty via drag-and-drop, Netlify deployments, and Cloudflare Pages deployments. Netlify and Cloudflare are two trusted static site hosts, but there are others available as well, such as Vercel, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks. Pick the service that best matches your needs and the needs of 11ty.

This chapter marks the end of the first project of the book. We set up a basic website in Chapter 1, added data to it in Chapter 2, and have now hosted it in Chapter 3. In the next chapter, we’ll create a new project to build a blog with 11ty. This will build on...