This is an unstyled starter for Eleventy which implements a lot of technical good practices but imposes no opinions on the CSS or JS build chains. It aims to offer a good folder structure and baseline build to start a project from.
It has the following feature set
- Eleventy Navigation plugin module included
- .env file support to change build environment locally
- Good baseline SEO headers (meta tags, schema.org, twitter cards, facebook openGraph)
- Global
site.jsondata file for sitewide defaults and parameters <body class="home $bodyClass">implementation- Eleventy Config defaults
- Default layout alias for
base.njkmaster template - A well formatted readable date filter
- Conditional HTML minification for
NODE_ENV='production'environment
- Default layout alias for
Please feel free to fork and mutate / improve.
Clone or fork repository then install relevant node_modules using yarn or NPM
yarn
To run a local development server based on 11ty's built in --serve parameter
yarn dev
To build to production set NODE_ENV=production in your .env file (hint: you'll need to create one in your project root)
yarn build
Build will not run a local server but will minify the HTML in the dist folder ready for deployment
Deploy the dist folder to a host of choice.