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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 will continue the work from Chapters 7 and 8 on the podcast website. As such, we’ll work from the Project 4 directory in the GitHub companion repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Eleventy-by-Example.

We’ll be using Hygraph as our headless CMS, so you’ll need to create a free Hygraph account to follow along with the chapter. For most small sites, the free account is plenty to get started.

In using Hygraph, we’ll be querying our content data using GraphQL, so a passing familiarity with the query language will be helpful, but not necessary.

Once you have an account with Hygraph and have the repository downloaded, we’re ready to dive into the wonderful world of headless content management.