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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

In this chapter, we went through what it takes to hook your 11ty website up to a headless CMS. This gives us the ability to have a solid editing experience without sacrificing our developer experience. In fact, with some of the extra features that come with a CMS, we were able to remove the need for some instances of 11ty plugins.

To move to the CMS, we created our content model inside Hygraph. The content model lined up with the data we needed for our 11ty site. We created content inside of Hygraph and we created a query to get the content data via GraphQL inside Hygraph’s API playground. From there, we used 11ty’s configuration data API to fetch the data and changed our templates to use that data instead of the collection data. From there, the site was using the headless CMS, but we still wanted a seamless deployment, so we used webhooks in Hygraph and build hooks in Netlify to create a flow for when content is added or updated in Hygraph to build the site...