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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)

Integrating 11ty with a Headless CMS

One of the great things about 11ty is that it can be an all-in-one solution for people looking to publish content, do a little development work, and generate HTML; but what if you don’t want to store your content in Markdown in your repository? Enter the world of headless content management systems (CMSs).

In this chapter, we’ll take our podcast website and add the headless CMS Hygraph as a data source. By decoupling our content from our code, we get a couple of superpowers from Hygraph that allow us to simplify our code, while at the same time simplifying our content editing and writing process. In doing this, we’ll explore what a headless CMS is, how to create proper data via content modeling, and how to get that data into our 11ty site. Finally, we’ll automate the process of publishing the site by setting it to trigger when a new CMS entry is added or updated to keep our publishing flow simple and clean.

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