How to Separate Content from Website Code | Sean C Davis
It's much easier to maintain a site over time when the content is separate from the code. Walk through that process using a real example with Eleventy.
5 Eleventy Tweaks That Make My Sites Better (and Maybe Yours) · Jens Oliver Meiert
Currently setting up my third site with Eleventy, I’ve run into a few things that proved useful. Here are five of them, including centrally defined layouts, title sorting, and easier hiding of posts.
Create Your First Basic 11ty Website | 11ty Rocks!
Begin from a blank directory and build up your first Eleventy site. Includes gotchas along the way, why they happen, and how to resolve them. You'll create essential layouts while learn the basics of using Nunjucks and Markdown for templating. And you'll learn to work with local data and external API data. As a bonus, get setup to deploy your final site to Netlify.
One of the great things about Eleventy is its flexibility and its lack of assumptions about how your projects should be organized. However, in order to preserve my own sanity, I needed to come up with a default files and folders architecture that made sense to me.
I spent a fair amount of time in 2021 building sites with 11ty. I started with no knowledge and ended with a set of preferred tips and tricks. Here's everything I know and wish I knew from the start.