Eleventy Blog

Eight Million npm Downloads!

2024-02-23T00:00:00Z

On February 19, 2024 Eleventy passed eight million lifetime downloads! That download count is now 8.09M (as of 2024 February 23).

(This number is limited to Eleventy core and doesn’t count our ecosystem of utilities and plugins.)

Thank you for the support!!

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We want you to speak at the 11ty Conference!

2024-02-23T00:00:00Z

The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good is happening on May 9, 2024 and we’ve been humbled by the response so far: 881 people already registered!

This week we’ve launched the open call for talk proposals. If you’re interested in speaking at the conference, you have about a month (until March 22) to add your submission(s):

We’re looking for talks on a variety of topics that will interest folks that care about the craft of building for the web: Best Practices That Work (CSS), Development Trends (e.g. Navigating the Great Divide), Jamstack, Front of the front end Development, Design Systems, Accessibility, Open Source, Web Performance (and probably some Eleventy too!).

If your submission is selected, you will receive a complimentary official 11ty Conference swag bag (it will likely contain stickers) and a small honorarium.

Appreciate you all and keep building for the web!

Register now for the 11ty Conference!

2024-02-16T00:00:00Z

The 11ty Conference is happening on May 9, 2024 and registration is now open!

Each registrant will receive a uniquely generated ticket image. We’d very much appreciate it if you would share your ticket (or the conference web site) on social media to help spread the word about the conference!

Looking forward, the goal for next week is to launch our public Call for Proposals (CFP) to start gathering conference speakers from our lovely community. Thank you!

Register on the 11ty Conference web site:

We’re running an 11ty Conference!

2024-01-30T00:00:00Z

In May 2024 (this year!) we’ll gather together our extremely-online community of webcraftspeople to share what we know! Join us at the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good.

We’ll publish a full schedule of relevant conference dates (call for proposals, et cetera) in the coming weeks!

And registration for the conference will be opening soon!

Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0

2023-12-17T00:00:00Z

Are you feeling adventurous? A few short days ago we released the first alpha release of Eleventy v3.0 on the canary channel. If you’d like to try it out, use the following command to install it in your project:

npm install @11ty/eleventy@canary --save-exact

Want to learn more about installation?

We recommend using --save-exact with the canary channel so you always get the exact same version every time. This will add something like "@11ty/eleventy": "3.0.0-alpha.2" to your package.json instead of "^3.0.0-alpha.2" (the carat is basically shorthand for: “give me the newest 3.0.x release”).

Rest assured, these releases have now been well-tested in production: both https://www.zachleat.com/ and https://www.11ty.dev/ are now using 3.0 alpha releases.

Thank You Jump to heading

This release would not have been possible without the support of CloudCannon.

I’ve been working with the incredible folks at CloudCannon for a few months now and have grown to love their git-backed CMS product. It works great with your existing deployment workflow: you don’t need to change frameworks or hosts, just add web-based editing! The site mounting feature has been incredible for my development velocity.

New features and a short upgrade guide Jump to heading

Eleventy v3.0 requires Node 18 or newer.

The flagship feature for this release is our first-class bundler-free (read: it’s fast) ESM support. Practically speaking, this means you can add "type": "module" to your package.json and all of the Node *.js files in your project will now expect ESM syntax (e.g. import instead of require).

ESM is not required. Your existing CommonJS (CJS) projects (known for use of module.exports and require) will still work great with Eleventy 3.0 and we will continue to support CommonJS in Eleventy moving forward.

You have two upgrade path options (pick which one suits your project best):

Leave your existing Eleventy project as CommonJS. This is the easiest migration path. Use of require for I18nPlugin, RenderPlugin, or HTMLBasePlugin will need to be updated.
Make your project ESM-first. This is highly recommended for new projects and is the best way to write JavaScript moving forward. 11ty-website went all in on ESM but (as a reminder) ESM is not required and a project-wide upgrade to ESM isn’t necessary either. You can add "type": "module" to your package.json and rename your Node .js files to .cjs and be done with it. Later on, you can slowly upgrade to ESM syntax one JavaScript file at a time by renaming back from .cjs to .js.

Upgrade examples Jump to heading

You can check out these two pull requests showing how these large-ish web site codebases were converted to use Eleventy v3.0:

zachleat.com kept using CommonJS (easy mode: 3 files changed ~6 lines of code): https://github.com/zachleat/zachleat.com/pull/50
11ty-website CommonJS to ESM (a bit more work): https://github.com/11ty/11ty-website/pull/1636

How to `require("@11ty/eleventy")` in CommonJS Jump to heading

This step is only necessary if you use CommonJS for your Eleventy configuration file (e.g. .eleventy.js or eleventy.config.js or eleventy.config.cjs).

If you use the I18nPlugin, RenderPlugin, or HTMLBasePlugin, you will need to make the following change in your CommonJS config file:

// Any combination of these
const { I18nPlugin, RenderPlugin, HtmlBasePlugin } = require("@11ty/eleventy");

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
	// …
};

If you’re continuing to use CommonJS, these will need to be updated to dynamic imports instead (you can’t require an ESM package but you can use await import() in CommonJS to work around it):

// Eleventy 3.0 supports async configuration callbacks:
module.exports = async function(eleventyConfig) {
	// Any combination of these
	const { I18nPlugin, RenderPlugin, HtmlBasePlugin } = await import("@11ty/eleventy");

	// …
};

‼️ Warning ‼️ Project Slipstream Changes Jump to heading

Per feedback from our community survey we’re making a few big changes in Eleventy v3.0 we’re referring to as Project Slipstream.

Low interest in pug, hbs, mustache, ejs, or haml has prompted their removal (from core) as well. But if you use these, do not despair. We have a future plan to move pug into plugin-land as an officially supported plugin for the v3.0 stable release. I you are interested in the others, please leave an upvote on the appropriate comment in Issue #3124.
Low-interest in our vendor-locked 😬 plugins (Netlify Serverless and Netlify Edge) prompted their removal as we rededicate to static site generation and the hosting portability of Jamstack. You will still be able to run Eleventy in serverless environments, but the Eleventy project will not manage this code directly.

If you’re interested in the unique benefits of the Jamstack and want to learn more, join us at thefutureofjamstack.org:

What’s next? Jump to heading

Our little project had a few set-backs this year but now we’re running on all cylinders now and it’s full steam ahead.

We’ll likely spend a few months doing active development on v3.0: taking feedback, bug fixing, and iterating on a few new surprises too. You can follow along with this progress on the GitHub milestone.

We’ll be talking about it all on Mastodon—make sure to follow along:

Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy

2023-11-29T00:00:00Z

Watch on YouTube

Zach Leatherman joins Mike Neumegen to discuss the background of Eleventy (11ty) and what the future holds for this static site generator.

Thanks for having me on, Mike! And for episode #11 too 👀

A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal!

2023-11-03T00:00:00Z

Update 2024 January 31—this mascot’s name has been selected and it is Elle!

The Eleventy Mascot is now officially a series! This time we’ve been lucky enough to snag a commission from David Neal, a very talented artist and long-time Eleventy enthusiast!

David was so excited to deliver this one and we think he absolutely nailed it. Thank you David!!

Have an idea for this critter’s name? Tell us on Mastodon!

Hi! My name is David Neal. I am a family man, geek, musician, illustrator, international speaker, software developer, author, and Microsoft MVP living in North GA. I am currently a Developer Advoduck 🥑 🦆 for MotherDuck 😄 In the past, I have been a Principal Developer Advocate for Pluralsight, Developer Relations Manager at ActiveCampaign, Senior Developer Advocate at Okta, and Developer Advocate at LeanKit. Before DevRel, I spent many years building high-performance, scalable web applications. I run on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and I'm entirely made of bacon 🥓.

Follow David on his socials:

Eleventy Mascot Series Jump to heading

(Unknown Name)

James Williamson. 22 May 2018. Before the possum, there was the cat

Edison

James Williamson. 22 May 2018. James pioneered the static-generating possum.

Grumpy

Phineas X. Jones. 18 December 2019. Our first commissioned iteration.

Masked Grumpy

Remixed by Ben Brignell. 7 July 2020

(Not yet named)

Geri Coady. July 2021. Our second commission! The community has grown.

Elle

David Neal. November 2023. Our third commission! We’re getting smarter.

Seven Million npm Downloads!

2023-10-23T00:00:00Z

On October 18, 2023 Eleventy passed seven million lifetime downloads! That download count is now 8.09M (as of 2024 February 23).

(This number is limited to Eleventy core and doesn’t count our ecosystem of utilities and plugins.)

Thank you for the support!!

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Big Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon!

2023-07-25T00:00:00Z

And now a special message via YouTube.

Watch on YouTube

Read more on the CloudCannon Blog: CloudCannon, the Official CMS Partner of Eleventy
See the post on Mastodon
Follow along on Mastodon: @eleventy@fosstodon.org and/or @cloudcannon@techhub.social.

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What’s up everybody? I have some great news—in a few short weeks I will be joining CloudCannon as a developer advocate!

And for folks in the Eleventy community, I am delighted to reveal that this move will unlock sponsorship of official open source development time for Eleventy! Importantly, Eleventy will continue on as an independent open source project and I’m excited about the opportunities ahead.

If you aren’t familiar with CloudCannon—they are an incredible git-backed CMS with amazing visual editing features. CloudCannon have also been avid supporters of Eleventy for quite some time, relaunching their web site using Eleventy earlier this year. I’d also recommend checking out the framework independent open source projects they manage too—I personally love the Pagefind static search project we use on Eleventy’s documentation.

After surveying the Eleventy community we found the data reflected an opportunity to refocus Eleventy as a static site generator, returning to our roots and the original benefits of the Jamstack that we all came to know and love: front-end web performance, improved security by decreasing runtimes, and reducing vendor lock-in for maximum hosting portability.

We’ll use this newly sponsored development time to implement Project Slipstream, the code name we’re using for Eleventy’s simplification and rededication to the Jamstack. Stay tuned—work has already begun and we look forward to shipping our first 3.0 alpha release soon.

And speaking personally, I continue to be thankful—not just to CloudCannon—but to everyone that reached out with offers of help for Eleventy—it speaks volumes to the kind and helpful folks that make up our community. Let’s keep those vibes going on the issue tracker, the Discord, on YouTube, on Mastodon and whatever other flavor of the week social network is happening this week! I appreciate y’all!

And keep building for the web!

The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023)

2023-07-17T00:00:00Z

Prerequisite read: The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project.

As part of this next phase of Eleventy and to best inform our decisions moving forward we asked folks to answer a few short questions as part of our Eleventy Community Survey.

First of all—thank you to everyone that participated. The response to this call has been overwhelming! We received 489 responses to the survey and we’re happy to share a few aggregate results from some of the more interesting questions here:

What services do you use to host projects? Jump to heading

489 of 489 participants answered this question.

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Host	Number of Responses
Netlify	336
GitHub	201
Cloudflare	85
Vercel	37
Digital Ocean	32
GitLab	31
Azure	11
AWS	8
Glitch	6
Render	5
Fastly	4

The remaining entries had fewer than three aggregate responses.

What types of paid hosting do you currently use for your projects? Jump to heading

489 of 489 participants answered this question.

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Hosting Type	Number of Responses
Free Tier	395
Paid/Pro/Business Tier	189
Enterprise Tier	23

Which official template syntaxes do you use in your projects? Jump to heading

489 of 489 participants answered this question.

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Template Syntax	Number of Responses
Nunjucks	407
Markdown	381
HTML	306
JavaScript (.11ty.js)	204
Liquid	148
WebC	114
Handlebars	24
Vue	19
Pug	12
Mustache	9
EJS	9
Haml	1

Which official plugins do you use in your projects? Jump to heading

455 of 489 participants answered this question.

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Plugin	Number of Responses
RSS	281
Image	280
Syntax Highlighter	223
Navigation	181
Fetch	160
HTML <base>	91
Render	80
i18n	68
<is-land>	53
Vite	52
Serverless	47
Edge	28

The Eleventy Community Survey (2023)

2023-07-11T00:00:00Z

Eleventy (like so many other projects and companies) is going through a period of change. To best inform our decisions—which may include deprecation or community-ownership of some of our plugins—we’re asking everyone to help out by participating in the Eleventy Community Survey.

We’re received 440+ responses so far and the survey will remain open for just a few more days. After closing, we’ll share popularity metrics around favorite template languages, plugins, hosts, and integrations across the Possumverse.

Thank you!

Take the Eleventy Community Survey (2023)

Six Million npm Downloads!

2023-07-04T00:00:00Z

On July 3, 2023 Eleventy passed six million lifetime downloads!

(This number is limited to Eleventy core and doesn’t count our ecosystem of utilities and plugins.)

Thank you for the support!!

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The Stability of Eleventy

2023-04-05T00:00:00Z

In The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind, we discussed the stability of Eleventy.

“Stability is kind of a hard thing to sell, but our track record of being a five or six-year-old project now and really delivering value to folks over those five or six years speaks for itself,” he added.

And Eleventy is stable. At time of writing, we’ve shipped 56 releases dating back December 2017 and only two of those releases have had Eleventy-specific breaking changes.

Eric Bailey touched on his experience with Eleventy on the a11yproject.com project.

a11yproject.com launched with version 1.0.0 of Eleventy. […] It's been a little under three years and I haven't had to make any adjustments to its dependencies, and it can still install and run from a cold start with no complications. When I update the site to use version 2.0.0 I'll actually be removing dependencies, and not adding more. […] That's rare and special.—Eric Bailey

But how best can we communicate and demonstrate stability? In the following video we tackle this complex question with two scenarios:

What happens when you return to an old project and want to get it up and running again without making any changes? Here we take our 6 Minute Blog from Scratch code and see how far back we can take the Eleventy version.
What happens when you return to an old project and want to upgrade it to the latest versions of your dependencies? Here we take our Eleventy Base Blog starter project (currently at v8) and revert the application code to older and older versions to see if they will run with the latest version of Eleventy (v2.0.1).

See how it went:

Watch on YouTube

The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind

2023-03-20T00:00:00Z

Eleventy is a static site generator built for speed, and the reason it can deliver is that it leaves a bundler behind, said Eleventy creator Zach Leatherman, in an interview with The New Stack.

“Stability is kind of a hard thing to sell, but our track record of being a five or six-year-old project now and really delivering value to folks over those five or six years speaks for itself,” he added.

Five Million npm Downloads!

2023-03-03T00:00:00Z

On February 13, 2023 Eleventy passed five million lifetime downloads!

(This number is limited to Eleventy core and doesn’t count our ecosystem of utilities and plugins.)

Watch on YouTube

(and on our YouTube channel too)

Thank you for the support!!

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We’re on Product Hunt Today!

2023-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few months back, someone put Eleventy on Product Hunt!

so, I wasn’t involved in this at all but someone posted @eleven_ty on @ProductHunt yesterday and it was “#1 Product of the Day”
neat? neat. is it neat? ok, I don’t really know—getting orange site vibes here 😅

Today, we’re back on Product Hunt for our 2.0 release and we’d love your support!

Eleventy v2.0.0, The Stable Release

2023-02-08T00:00:00Z

Eleventy v2.0.0 is now available! You can try it out now:

# Local project
npm install @11ty/eleventy@latest

# Global install
npm install @11ty/eleventy@latest -g

Read more about local versus global installation.
Watch a short video about 2.0 on YouTube.

Are you new to Eleventy? Jump to heading

Eleventy is a flexible and production-ready site generator known for its zero-client-JavaScript footprint, speedy sites, speedy builds, and full control over the output. Watch The State of Eleventy in Two Minutes or read more about Eleventy’s project goals.

The Big Features Jump to heading

Smaller, More Secure Jump to heading

✅ Dependencies decreased by 32.1%: 211 modules (311 in v1.0.2)
✅ node_modules file weight decreased by 77.8% to 34.3 MB (was 155 MB in v1.0.2)
✅ 30.5% faster npm install time

Faster Builds Jump to heading

Improved build performance (tested on a sample 500 page site against v1.0.2) using:
- Liquid: ✅ 18.18% faster
- Nunjucks: ✅ 17.74% faster
- Markdown (with Liquid): ✅ 17.95% faster
- JavaScript (11ty.js): ✅ 8.33% faster
--incremental for incremental builds #108
- Smarter incremental builds with support for layout dependencies, registered dependencies on custom templates, dependencies in pagination data or eleventyImport #975
--ignore-initial command line option to skip the first build (best paired with --incremental)
Use emulated passthrough copy to serve passthrough files directly without triggering a build (will still work with live reload) #2456

Plugins Jump to heading

Support for WebC, the new single file format for web components
Eleventy Edge will render Eleventy templates in an Edge Function for dynamic content (bundled with Eleventy)
Eleventy Dev Server replaces Browsersync, adds support for DOM-diffing live reloads. #1305 (bundled with Eleventy)
Render Plugin will render any template syntax inside other files (bundled with Eleventy)
Internationalization (i18n) Plugin makes it easy to create localized sites (bundled with Eleventy)
HTML <base> Plugin makes it easy to deploy your site to any folder path without changing any content (works great with the path prefix feature) (bundled with Eleventy)
Support for the Vite plugin

And more… Jump to heading

Support for aliasing to an existing template language #2248
- This unlocks TypeScript or JSX in Eleventy when you use esbuild-register and alias 11ty.ts or 11ty.tsx to 11ty.js.
Event arguments unlock new plugin abilities: dir (input/output/includes/data/layouts locations),
outputMode (where the templates are going: fs, json, ndjson), runMode (build, watch, or serve), or results for the processed Eleventy output.
Memory usage improvements to Pagination

Breaking Changes Jump to heading

INFO:

Rather than review this list, it’d be faster to use the eleventy-upgrade-helper plugin, which runs a suite of tests to see whether or not you need to worry about these breaking changes in your project: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-upgrade-help

Bump minimum Node version to Node 14+ #2336
Disable indented code blocks in Markdown by default #2438
Both .git and nested node_modules folders are ignored by default (previously we ignored node_modules/**, now **/node_modules/**) #2436
Dates will now be stripped from the parent directory for page.fileSlug when the file name is index.*. e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-myslug/index.md has a page.fileSlug of myslug when previously it was YYYY-MM-DD-myslug #1947 #2111
Dots in global data file names should be preserved in key name for data cascade #1242 #1912
Removes deprecated in v1.0 (and undocumented) renderData feature (use Computed Data instead) #2356
Removes pre-processing global JSON data files with a template language #2728
Removes --passthroughall command line flag #2682
Major dependency bumps:
- liquidjs from v9 to v10 Release notes #2678
- luxon from v2 to v3 Release notes
- markdown-it from v12 to v13 Release notes

The Small Features Jump to heading

Adds support for configuration default file names eleventy.config.js and eleventy.config.cjs in addition to .eleventy.js #1029
addShortcode is now async-friendly #2726
addFilter is now async-friendly #2536 (also adds an addAsyncFilter API method)
File watching:
- Eleventy Dev Server includes a watch option to trigger live reloads on file changes outside of your Eleventy build. Works great when you’re using a separate bundler in parallel!
- Decoupled ignore APIs for template processing (eleventyConfig.ignores) and file watching (eleventyConfig.watchIgnores) #893
Access advanced recursive-copy options in passthrough file copy #1686
- Unlocks passthrough copy with symlinks #530
log filter supports chaining #2467
Adds new git Created date option #2468
Adds options for read and encoding to custom data formats
- This unlocks using binary files (like images) to populate the Data Cascade

Even Smaller Features Jump to heading

Adds eleventy.env.runMode to global data. #2770
setDataFileSuffixes API method to customize Template and Directory data file suffixes (or opt-out of the Template and Directory Data Files feature) #2681
Serverless option singleTemplateScope: false simplifies using collections in serverless mode. #2736
A variety of bug fixes for --serve issues that required server restarts.
Data Consistency:
- this.page and this.eleventy are now available on Shortcodes, 🆕 Filters, 🆕 Linters, and 🆕 Transforms
- page and content on Collection entries
Adds getCollectionItemIndex universal filter #2676
Throw error on circular layout dependencies #2076
Plugins can now reference eleventyConfig.pathPrefix #2526
generatePageOnEmptyData to generate an empty results page with an empty paginated data set #1698 #756 #731 #2208
Creating an empty JSON data file no longer throws an error #2299

Housekeeping Jump to heading

Full issue list: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/38?closed=1
Full changelog: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/compare/v1.0.2...v2.0.0

Thank You Notes Jump to heading

This project would not be possible without our lovely community. Thank you to everyone that built something with Eleventy (×684 authors on our web site!), wrote a blog post about Eleventy, contributed code, wrote a plugins, helped with documentation, asked questions, answered questions, braved The Leaderboards, participated on Discord, filed issues, attended (or organized!) a meetup, said a kind word on social media ❤️.

A huge thank you to Netlify, especially: Matt Biilmann, Chris Bach, Lauren Sell (alum), and Claire Knight, without whom this release would not have been possible.
🏆 A special thanks to Peter DeHaan for their tireless contributions on the Eleventy Issue tracker.
Yet more thanks to the all star Discord Moderators and Meetup Coordinators Ben Myers, Cassey Lottman, Dan Leatherman, Evan Sheehan, Thomas M. Semmler, Sia Karamalegos and Stephanie Eckles.
All of our supporters on Open Collective ❤️
Contribute on Open Collective
How else can you contribute to Eleventy?

Pull Requests From Jump to heading

@AleksandrHovhannisyan 🆕, @amareshsm ×2 🆕, @binyamin, @DamianOsipiuk 🆕, @epelc ×2 🆕, @j-f1 🆕, @Jaza 🆕, @kentaroi 🆕, @kev4ev 🆕, @LeoSchae 🆕, @milahu ×3, @nasivuela 🆕, @NickColley 🆕, @NotWoods, @Obayanju 🆕, @Snapstromegon ×16 (wow! 🤯), @TheDocTrier 🆕, @thinkverse 🆕, @TigersWay 🆕, @wes-goulet 🆕, @mrmartineau 🆕, @danburzo 🆕

Open Collective Supporters Jump to heading

Gold Sponsors: Sanity.io, Nordhealth, CloudCannon, Transloadit
Silver Sponsors: Unabridged Software, PQINA, Bejamas, Nathan Smith, Monarch Air Group, Getform.io, Mercury Jets, OCEG
Backers: Tyler Gaw, Ariel Salminen, Peter deHaan, Melanie Sumner, Ben Nash, Alejandro Rodríguez, Mat Marquis, Philip Borenstein, Jérôme Coupé, Nicolas Hoizey, Mike Aparicio, Ben Myers, Katie Sylor-Miller, Mark Buskbjerg, mortendk, Aaron Hans, Lauris Consulting, John Meyerhofer, Todd Libby, Luke Bonaccorsi, shawn j sandy, Jenn Schiffer, Dimitrios Grammatikogiannis, Devin Clark, Eric Bailey, Manuel Matuzovic, Higby, Tim Giles, Kyosuke Nakamura, Horacio Gonzalez, Hans Gerwitz, Makoto Kawasaki, Rob Sterlini, Josh Crain, Nick Nisi, John SJ Anderson, Ryan Swaney, Richard Hemmer, Alistair Shepherd, Flaki, Angelique Weger, John Hall, Scott McCracken, James Steinbach, Miriam Suzanne, Ivo Herrmann, Bentley Davis, vince falconi, Martin Schneider, Stephanie Eckles, Frontend Weekly Tokyo, Chris Burnell, Ximenav Vf., Rich Holman, Kasper Storgaard, Kevin Healy, Dorin Vancea, Greg Gibson, Hidde, Michelle Barker, Alesandro Ortiz, David A. Herron, Paul Robert Lloyd, Andrea Vaghi, Bryan Robinson, Ashur Cabrera, Raymond Camden, John Meguerian, Joe Lamyman, Ara Abcarians, Dan Ryan, Sam, Brett Nelson, Paul Welsh, Ingo Steinke, Melanie Richards, Noel Forte, Marco Zehe, Wes Ruvalcaba, Luc Poupard, Entle Web Solutions, Ken Hawkins, Fershad Irani, Nikita Dubko, Aaron Gustafson, Chris, Christian Miles, Benjamin Geese, Marcus Relacion, Netin nopeustesti, Sia Karamalegos, Raphael Höser, Cthos, Saneef Ansari, Flemming Meyer, Colin Fahrion, Dan Burzo, Jon Kuperman, Michel van der Kroef, Dan Ott, Mobilemall.pk, Cheap VPS, David Darnes, Jon Roobottom, Dana Byerly, Oisín Quinn, Renkaatsopivasti, Windesol Sähkön Kilpailutus, Luke Mitchell, SignpostMarv, THE PADDING, Bob Monsour, Patrick Byrne, zapscribbles, quinnanya, Richmond Insulation, Cory Birdsong, Aram ZS, Frank Reding, Andy Stevenson, HelppoHinta.fi, Robin Rendle, Tanner Dolby, jpoehnelt, Richmond Concrete, Andrew Weisbeck, CelineDesign, Nic Chan, Duc Lam, Alex Zappa, Stephen Bell, xdesro, Alexander Wunschik, alistairtweedie, Tom, Robert Haselbacher, Lene, Brett DeWoody, Meta Tier List, Iva Tech, kylepfeeley, Daniel Saunders, Dan Urbanowicz, dan leatherman, Josh Vickerson, Viewality Media, Aviator Game, Softermii, Eric Carlisle, Claus Conrad, Eric Gallager, Matt Obee, CBD Review

The `v8` release of Eleventy’s Base Blog starter project using Eleventy 2.0

2023-01-24T00:00:00Z

Last week marked the first beta release of Eleventy’s new v2.0 version. This week we’ve spent a little time updating our eleventy-base-blog project to the latest version and added a few new features too.

Try out the new eleventy-base-blog Starter Project

Here’s what the base blog now offers out of the box:

Using Eleventy v2.0 with the new Eleventy Dev Server and that same great zero-JavaScript taste.
- Can easily deploy to a subfolder without changing any content
Performance focused: four-hundos Lighthouse score out of the box!
- 0 Cumulative Layout Shift and 0ms Total Blocking Time
- View the Lighthouse report for the latest demo build courtesy of the Netlify Lighthouse plugin. Notably, the demo site fails the build if the site goes below a perfect four-hundos threshold.
Content-driven navigation menu via the Eleventy Navigation plugin
Automated image optimization (without client JavaScript) via the Eleventy Image utility
- Generate modern image formats automatically (e.g. AVIF and WebP)
- Automated swap between <img> and <picture> dependent on how many output formats you’re using.
- Markup is generated for you with srcset and optional sizes
- Includes width/height attributes to avoid content layout shift.
- Includes loading="lazy" for native lazy loading without JavaScript.
- Includes decoding="async"
- Images can be co-located with blog post files.
- View the Image plugin source code
Built-in syntax highlighter (no client JavaScript)
Blog Posts
- Draft posts: use draft: true to mark a blog post as a draft. Drafts are only included during --serve/--watch and are excluded from full builds. View the Drafts plugin source code.
- Automated next/previous links
- Accessible deep links to headings
Generated Pages
- Home, Archive, and About pages by default (configure more as needed!)
- Customizable content not found (404) page
- Feeds for Atom and JSON
- sitemap.xml
- Zero-maintenance tag pages (View on the Demo)

The very first beta release of Eleventy v2.0

2023-01-18T00:00:00Z

Update: The Eleventy v2.0.0 stable release is now available!

The very first Eleventy 2.0 Beta release is now available on the @beta channel and we’re looking for Beta testers! You can try it out now:

# Local project
npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta

# Global install
npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta -g

Read more about local versus global installation.

Watch on YouTube

Are you new to Eleventy? Jump to heading

The Big Features Jump to heading

Smaller, More Secure Jump to heading

✅ Dependencies decreased by 32.1%: 211 modules (311 in v1.0.2)
✅ node_modules file weight decreased by 77.8%: 34.3 MB (155 MB in v1.0.2)
✅ 30.5% faster npm install

Faster Builds Jump to heading

Improved build performance (tested on a sample 500 page site against v1.0.2) using:
- Liquid: ✅ 18.18% faster
- Nunjucks: ✅ 17.74% faster
- Markdown (with Liquid): ✅ 17.95% faster
- JavaScript (11ty.js): ✅ 8.33% faster
--incremental for incremental builds #108
- Smarter incremental builds with support for layout dependencies, registered dependencies on custom templates, dependencies in pagination data or eleventyImport #975
--ignore-initial command line option to skip the first build (best paired with --incremental)
Use emulated passthrough copy to serve passthrough files directly without triggering a build (will still work with live reload) #2456

Plugins Jump to heading

Support for WebC, the new single file format for web components
Eleventy Edge will render Eleventy templates in an Edge Function for dynamic content (bundled with Eleventy)
Eleventy Dev Server replaces Browsersync, adds support for DOM-diffing live reloads. #1305 (bundled with Eleventy)
Render Plugin will render any template syntax inside other files (bundled with Eleventy)
Internationalization (i18n) Plugin makes it easy to create localized sites (bundled with Eleventy)
HTML <base> Plugin makes it easy to deploy your site to any folder path without changing any content (works great with the path prefix feature) (bundled with Eleventy)
Support for the Vite plugin

And more… Jump to heading

Support for aliasing to an existing template language #2248
- This unlocks TypeScript or JSX in Eleventy when you use esbuild-register and alias 11ty.ts or 11ty.tsx to 11ty.js.
Event arguments unlock new plugin abilities: dir (input/output/includes/data/layouts locations),
outputMode (where the templates are going: fs, json, ndjson), runMode (build, watch, or serve), or results for the processed Eleventy output.
Memory usage improvements to Pagination

Breaking Changes Jump to heading

INFO:

Bump minimum Node version to Node 14+ #2336
Disable indented code blocks in Markdown by default #2438
Both .git and nested node_modules folders are ignored by default (previously we ignored node_modules/**, now **/node_modules/**) #2436
Dates will now be stripped from the parent directory for page.fileSlug when the file name is index.*. e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-myslug/index.md has a page.fileSlug of myslug when previously it was YYYY-MM-DD-myslug #1947 #2111
Dots in global data file names should be preserved in key name for data cascade #1242 #1912
Removes deprecated in v1.0 (and undocumented) renderData feature (use Computed Data instead) #2356
Removes pre-processing global JSON data files with a template language #2728
Removes --passthroughall command line flag #2682
Major dependency bumps:
- liquidjs from v9 to v10 Release notes #2678
- luxon from v2 to v3 Release notes
- markdown-it from v12 to v13 Release notes

The Small Features Jump to heading

Adds support for configuration default file names eleventy.config.js and eleventy.config.cjs in addition to .eleventy.js #1029
addShortcode is now async-friendly #2726
addFilter is now async-friendly #2536 (also adds an addAsyncFilter API method)
File watching:
- Eleventy Dev Server includes a watch option to trigger live reloads on file changes outside of your Eleventy build. Works great when you’re using a bundler in parallel!
- Decoupled ignore APIs for template processing (eleventyConfig.ignores) and file watching (eleventyConfig.watchIgnores) #893
Access advanced recursive-copy options in passthrough file copy #1686
- Unlocks passthrough copy with symlinks #530
log filter supports chaining #2467
Adds new git Created date option #2468
Adds options for read and encoding to custom data formats
- This unlocks using binary files (like images) to populate the Data Cascade

Even Smaller Features Jump to heading

setDataFileSuffixes API method to customize Template and Directory data file suffixes (or opt-out of the Template and Directory Data Files feature) #2681
Serverless option singleTemplateScope: false simplifies using collections in serverless mode. #2736
A variety of bug fixes for --serve issues that required server restarts.
Data Consistency:
- this.page and this.eleventy are now available on Shortcodes, 🆕 Filters, 🆕 Linters, and 🆕 Transforms
- page and content on Collection entries
Adds getCollectionItemIndex universal filter #2676
Throw error on circular layout dependencies #2076
Plugins can now reference eleventyConfig.pathPrefix #2526
generatePageOnEmptyData to generate an empty results page with an empty paginated data set #1698 #756 #731 #2208
Creating an empty JSON data file no longer throws an error #2299

Housekeeping Jump to heading

Full issue list: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/38?closed=1
Full changelog: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/compare/v1.0.2...v2.0.0-beta.1

Thank You Notes Jump to heading

This project would not be possible without our lovely community. Thank you to everyone that built something with Eleventy (×669 authors on our web site!), wrote a blog post about Eleventy, contributed code, wrote a plugins, helped with documentation, asked questions, answered questions, braved The Leaderboards, participated on Discord, filed issues, attended (or organized!) a meetup, said a kind word on social media ❤️.

A huge thank you to Netlify, especially: Matt Biilmann, Chris Bach, Lauren Sell (alum), and Claire Knight, without whom this release would not have been possible.
🏆 A special thanks to Peter DeHaan for their tireless contributions on the Eleventy Issue tracker.
Yet more thanks to the all star Discord Moderators and Meetup Coordinators Ben Myers, Cassey Lottman, Dan Leatherman, Evan Sheehan, Thomas M. Semmler, Sia Karamalegos and Stephanie Eckles.
All of our supporters on Open Collective ❤️
Contribute on Open Collective
How else can you contribute to Eleventy?

Pull Requests From Jump to heading

Open Collective Supporters Jump to heading

Gold Sponsors: Sanity.io, Nordhealth, CloudCannon, Transloadit
Silver Sponsors: Unabridged Software, PQINA, Bejamas, Nathan Smith, Monarch Air Group, Getform.io, Mercury Jets, and OCEG
Backers: Tyler Gaw, Ariel Salminen, Peter deHaan, Melanie Sumner, Ben Nash, Alejandro Rodríguez, Mat Marquis, Philip Borenstein, Jérôme Coupé, Nicolas Hoizey, Mike Aparicio, Ben Myers, Katie Sylor-Miller, Mark Buskbjerg, mortendk, Aaron Hans, Lauris Consulting, John Meyerhofer, Todd Libby, Luke Bonaccorsi, shawn j sandy, Jenn Schiffer, Dimitrios Grammatikogiannis, Devin Clark, Eric Bailey, Manuel Matuzovic, Kyosuke Nakamura, Tim Giles, Hans Gerwitz, Makoto Kawasaki, Horacio Gonzalez, Rob Sterlini, Josh Crain, Søren Birkemeyer, Richard Hemmer, Nick Nisi, John SJ Anderson, Ryan Swaney, Alistair Shepherd, Ivo Herrmann, Flaki, John Hall, Scott McCracken, James Steinbach, Miriam Suzanne, Angelique Weger, Bentley Davis, vince falconi, Martin Schneider, Stephanie Eckles, Frontend Weekly Tokyo, Chris Burnell, Ximenav Vf., Rich Holman, Kasper Storgaard, Kevin Healy, Greg Gibson, Hidde, Michelle Barker, Alesandro Ortiz, David A. Herron, Paul Robert Lloyd, Andrea Vaghi, Bryan Robinson, Ashur Cabrera, Raymond Camden, John Meguerian, Joe Lamyman, Dorin Vancea, Ara Abcarians, Paul Welsh, Ingo Steinke, Dan Ryan, Sam, Brett Nelson, Melanie Richards, Marco Zehe, Wes Ruvalcaba, Luc Poupard, Noel Forte, Entle Web Solutions, Ken Hawkins, Fershad Irani, Nikita Dubko, Aaron Gustafson, Chris, Christian Miles, Benjamin Geese, Marcus Relacion, Netin nopeustesti, Cthos, Sia Karamalegos, Jon Kuperman, Raphael Höser, Saneef Ansari, Flemming Meyer, Colin Fahrion, Dan Burzo, Dan Ott, Mobilemall.pk, Cheap VPS, David Darnes, Michel van der Kroef, Jon Roobottom, Dana Byerly, Oisín Quinn, Renkaatsopivasti, Windesol Sähkön Kilpailutus, Luke Mitchell, SignpostMarv, THE PADDING, Bob Monsour, Patrick Byrne, zapscribbles, Frank Reding, quinnanya, Richmond Insulation, Cory Birdsong, Aram ZS, Andy Stevenson, HelppoHinta.fi, Robin Rendle, Tanner Dolby, jpoehnelt, Richmond Concrete, Andrew Weisbeck, Tom, CelineDesign, Nic Chan, Duc Lam, Alex Zappa, Stephen Bell, Brett DeWoody, alistairtweedie, Meta Tier List, xdesro, Alexander Wunschik, Robert Haselbacher, Lene, Iva Tech, kylepfeeley, Daniel Saunders, Dan Urbanowicz, dan leatherman, Viewality Media, Aviator Game, Softermii, Eric Carlisle, Claus Conrad, CBD Review, Eric Gallager

Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Results

2022-11-29T00:00:00Z

Check out the Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Jump to heading

Looks like our usage grew from 17% to 19% while keeping a solid 3.8 satisfaction score.

Also notably:

11ty was the only purely static site generator (SSG) in our survey to show growth in usage share. For this reason we think 11ty is now the clear choice if a static site is your use case.

As we mentioned already, if you’re building a static or nearly-static site, we continue to think 11ty is an excellent choice given its growth relative to other SSGs in the space.

We really appreciate the support, everyone!

Previously: Jump to heading

2021
2020

The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes

2022-11-28T00:00:00Z

Watch on YouTube
Read a bunch more detail on zachleat.com.

Represent Eleventy in the State of JavaScript Survey 2022

2022-11-23T00:00:00Z

Looks like Eleventy is listed on this year’s State of JavaScript Survey in the “Rendering Frameworks” section——it would be really lovely if our community were well represented in the data!

Appreciate y’all!

Four Million npm Downloads!

2022-09-30T00:00:00Z

On September 16, 2022 Eleventy passed four million lifetime downloads!

(This number is limited to Eleventy core and doesn’t count our ecosystem of utilities and plugins.)

We put up a nice celebratory video on Twitter.

Watch on YouTube

(and on our YouTube channel too)

Thanks for the support, y’all!

Previous arbitrary milestones Jump to heading

Three Million npm Downloads!

2022-04-22T00:00:00Z

On March 25, 2022 Eleventy passed three million lifetime downloads! We put up a nice celebratory video on Twitter.

Watch on YouTube

(and on our YouTube channel too)

Thanks for the support, y’all!

Use Eleventy Edge to deliver dynamic web sites on the Edge

2022-04-19T00:00:00Z

I am very proud to introduce a brand new addition to Eleventy: Eleventy Edge.

Eleventy Edge is an exciting new way to add dynamic content to your Eleventy templates. With a simple Eleventy shortcode you can opt-in a part of your Eleventy template to run on an Edge server, allowing your site to use dynamic, user-specific content!

A few ideas Jump to heading

Here are a few ideas of things you could do with the new Eleventy Edge plugin:

Any user personalized content (User accounts, premium-only content, AB testing)
Accessing/setting HTTP Headers (e.g. Cookies, Save-Data, Client Hints, etc)
Handling Forms
Using Geolocation information to localize content
A zero-clientside JavaScript Dark mode/Light mode toggle

Supplement your build Jump to heading

You can use Eleventy Edge with your existing projects and templates—render just a portion of your build template on the Edge:

Syntax Nunjucks, Liquid

The content outside of the `edge` shortcode is generated with the Build.

{% edge %}
The content inside of the `edge` shortcode is generated on the Edge.

* Use a query param value here.
* Use a cookie value here.
* All without clientside JS.
{% endedge %}

This feature makes heavy use of Netlify’s new Edge Functions feature to run Eleventy in Deno on Edge servers. It continues Eleventy’s architectural dedication to markup-first zero-clientside JavaScript solutions to deliver the fast and scalable dynamic web sites. Check out our introductory demos and watch for more content to come discussing this exciting new feature.

More around the web Jump to heading

New Eleventy YouTube Channel

2022-02-18T00:00:00Z

🎥 Eleventy has a new YouTube channel!

We’ll be sharing updates and community content over there. Like/dislike/subscribe/unsubscribe at your leisure!

Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify

2022-02-14T00:00:00Z

And now a special message via YouTube and Twitter.

Watch on YouTube

Transcript: Jump to heading

If you're seeing this video, it is Monday, February 14—Yep.

Which means that I am now very excited to announce that effective today, Netlify will be sponsoring full-time development of Eleventy!

Eleventy started with the very basic idea that the tools we use to make websites should be simpler for both beginners and experts, and we are still working very hard to continue to deliver on that mission today.

This announcement is such huge news for our project in multiple ways: the project's longevity, sustainability, delivery of features, integrations fixes enabling folks to take on even larger scale projects (if this sounds like your project, please get in touch).

This is one small part of Netlify's larger strategy to invest in an ecosystem of frameworks and tools to make building for the web easier, more resilient, and more scalable. I'm now on a team of three folks working toward those goals, and if this sounds like a pretty sweet deal to you, we are hiring.

And personally speaking, I'm just so grateful to have this opportunity. Grateful to the folks that have trusted Eleventy with their web projects, grateful to folks that have participated in our community, whether it be answering questions, writing blog posts, code, docs, or being friendly on Discord, Twitter, or at meetups.

I'm grateful to everyone building for the open web—accessible to all—independent of walled gardens and app stores, where a wallet isn't a prerequisite.

And I don't know if you all can tell, but I am so excited. If Eleventy was walking before now we're going to find out what it really feels like to run.

Stay tuned.

Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release.

2022-01-09T00:00:00Z

Full docs for v1.0.0 on our web site

This project would not be possible without our lovely community. Thank you to everyone that built something with Eleventy (×476 authors on our web site!), wrote a blog post about Eleventy, contributed code to core or plugins, documentation, asked questions, answered questions, braved The Leaderboards, participated on Discord, filed issues, attended (or organized!) a meetup, said a kind word on Twitter ❤️.

I really wish I had time to list everyone, but I do want to mention a few folks that have made tremendous contributions:

🏆 A super special thanks to Peter DeHaan and Binyamin Green for their tireless contributions on the Eleventy Issue tracker.
All of our supporters on Open Collective ❤️
- Gold Sponsors: Sanity.io, Nordhealth, Screen recorder for Mac
- Silver Sponsors: Piccalilli, ESLint, Unabridged Software, PQINA, The Coders Guild, Bejamas
- A full list of Backers can be found below!
Contribute on Open Collective
How else can you contribute to Eleventy?

Install or Upgrade Jump to heading

Install to your local project: npm install @11ty/eleventy
Already installed in your local project? Upgrade your version: npm update @11ty/eleventy
Read more about local project versus global installation

Upgrading from 0.x? Try out the eleventy-upgrade-help plugin.

This will log breaking changes that apply to your project. https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-upgrade-help

Breaking Changes Jump to heading

Changes Node requirement to 12+ (previously: 10+)
Data Deep Merge is now enabled by default
- Docs: Data Deep Merge and Issue #1753
The ordering in the Data Cascade changed slightly: Front Matter in Layout files moved to be lower precedence, below Template and Data Directory Files (but higher than Global Data).
- Docs: Data Cascade and Issue #915
liquidjs v9 major version upgrade changes:
- setLiquidOptions: Eleventy default for dynamicPartials changed to true. Issue #240 Unquoted include paths will need to be updated or revert using dynamicPartials: false
- setLiquidOptions: Liquid option strict_filters renamed to strictFilters. Issue #1390
- setLiquidOptions: Eleventy default for strict_filters/strictFilters changed to true. Issue #222
- Relative path includes (e.g. {% include "./include.liquid" %}) now look relative to the file first, and the includes directory second. Issue #2090
ejs v3 major version upgrade changes: Issue #1392
- Removes <% include /included %> style include, use <%- include('/included') -%> instead. Don’t forget the dash <%- and -%>!
.gitignore files outside of your project root are no longer supported when calculating ignored paths in Eleventy. Issue #364
- ✅ {ROOT}/.gitignore (supported)
- 🚫 {INPUT_DIR}/.gitignore (not supported)
- ✅ {ROOT}/.eleventyignore (supported)
- ✅ {INPUT_DIR}/.eleventyignore (supported)
If you rely on the YYYY-MM-DD format in your file names for content dates, these are now assumed to be UTC instead of local dates. Take care if you use liquid’s built-in date format with page.date!
- Docs: Content Dates, Issue #1752, and https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/375
browser-sync:
- Default to ui: false Issue #843
- Default to ghostMode: false Issue #841
- Re-enable these features using eleventyConfig.setBrowserSyncConfig
Removes the jstl template language. Use 11ty.js instead. Issue #1084
Change to dataTemplateEngine: false by default. Issue #174

Please use eleventy-upgrade-help to log breaking changes that apply to your project.

Features Jump to heading

Major Jump to heading

Custom File Extension Handlers: applications and plugins can now add their own template types and tie them to a file extension.
- Docs: Custom Template Languages and Issue #117
Render Plugin, shortcodes to render other template languages.
- Docs: Render Plugin
Serverless Plugin, allow Eleventy templates to run in a serverless function for server side rendering.
- Use with Netlify Functions and On-demand Builders
- Docs: Serverless Plugin
Adds support for --to=json and --to=ndjson
- Docs: Command Line Usage
- Use Data Filter Selectors to opt-in data from the Data Cascade. Docs: Configuration: Data Filter Selectors
Adds support for programmatic Eleventy (e.g. new Eleventy() in your Node.js script)
- Docs: Programmatic API
Configuration: addGlobalData method.
- Docs: Global Data from the Configuration API and Issue #1280
- Note also that JavaScript Global Data Files now receive data. Docs: JavaScript Data Files

Minor Jump to heading

Passthrough Copy now throws an error if two or more files attempt to copy to the same output location. Issue #1677
For better URL-safe slugs by default, we now suggest using the new slugify global filter instead of the previous slug. slug is still included for backwards compatiblity. slugify Docs. eleventy-upgrade-help includes a permalink checker to compare slug and slugify output. Issue #278
Added support for protocol relative URLs in the url global filter (though technically accurate, using this method is discouraged). Issue #1276
New Eleventy supplied data:
- eleventy Global Data
  - Docs: Eleventy Supplied Data: eleventy Variable
- Environment Variables:
  - Docs: Eleventy Supplied Data: Environment Variables
  - ELEVENTY_ROOT
  - ELEVENTY_SOURCE
  - ELEVENTY_SERVERLESS
tags are now de-duped. Issue #1876
JavaScript functions in eleventyComputed now have access to global filters.
- Docs: Computed Data and Issue #1862
Ignores
- node_modules are now ignored by default. Docs: Ignores and Issue #383
- Control ignores programmatically. Docs: Ignores and Issue #894 #1405
Configuration: Access to eleventyConfig.dir in plugins. Issue #922
Configuration: Events are now Async-friendly
- Docs: Events and Issue #1363
Replace chalk dependency with kleur Issue #2113
Adds template language-agnostic compilation caching for speeeeed Issue #1529
Fixes bug --input=file.njk --output=. would process 0 files. Issue #1129
Fixes bug where Eleventy would stop processing templates in watch/serve mode after a compilation error. Issue #1658
Front matter parsing errors will now report the filename of the offending file in the error message. Issue #1152
Option to opt-out of the browser-sync JavaScript snippet
Warning when Transforms that return empty content. Issue #1487
Transforms now have access to inputPath Issue #789
Shows the preprocessed template engine name on the console for html or md files Issue #1478

Nunjucks Jump to heading

Adds eleventyConfig.setNunjucksEnvironmentOptions method. Issue #895
- Docs: Nunjucks
Adds eleventyConfig.addNunjucksGlobal method. Issue #1060

Liquid Jump to heading

Adds support for asynchronous filters. Issue #831

Milestone Jump to heading

All bug fix issues can be perused at the GitHub milestone:
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/32?closed=1

Some internals highlights:

Improvements to stability with Nunjucks and shortcodes in {% for %} loops
Fix for EMFILE: too many open files errors
Use a named browser-sync instance. Issue #1125
Switch from fs-extra to graceful-fs

Major Version Dependency Upgrades Jump to heading

These are convenience links provided. Major things of note are summarized in the Breaking Changes section above.

liquidjs from 6 to 9, release notes: v7 v8 v9
luxon from 1 to 2: (Node 12+ minimum) Upgrade Guide
markdown-it from 10 to 12, release notes: v11 v12
ejs from 2 to 3. Release notes: v3
mustache from 2 to 4. Release notes: v3 v4

THANK YOU NOTES Jump to heading

First-time GitHub contributions from @d2s, @Snugug, @slightlyoff, @max, @valtlai, @harttle, @binyamin, @bnb, @NotWoods, @gobeli, @lxg, @GerHobbelt, @hirusi, @stuartpb, @milahu, @oscarotero, @jakemulley, @tannerdolby, @Snapstromegon, @knokmki612, @mariusschulz, @Holben888, @zidingz, @magua-io, @masguit42, @JKC-Codes, @ThewBear, @CodeFoodPixels, @dgrammatiko, @oscard0m, @monochromer

Gold Sponsors: Sanity.io, Nordhealth, Screen recorder for Mac

Silver Sponsors: Piccalilli, ESLint, Unabridged Software, PQINA, The Coders Guild, Bejamas

OpenCollective Monthly Backers: Viljami Salminen, Tyler Gaw, Peter deHaan, Melanie Sumner, Alejandro Rodríguez, Mat Marquis, Philip Borenstein, Jérôme Coupé, Max Böck, Bryce Wray, Kristof Michiels, Yuhei Yasuda, Ed Spencer, Nicolas Hoizey, Mike Aparicio, Todd Libby, Luke Bonaccorsi, Ben Myers, Katie Sylor-Miller, Mark Buskbjerg, mortendk, Aaron Hans, Lauris Consulting, John Meyerhofer, Ben Hyrman, Keenan Payne, Dimitrios Grammatikogiannis, Devin Clark, Eric Bailey, Dave Rupert, Manuel Matuzovic, Phil Hawksworth, Brian Koser, Tianyu Ge, Vadim Makeev, Kyosuke Nakamura, Hans Gerwitz, Makoto Kawasaki, Horacio Gonzalez, Matthew Tole, Wellness Researched, Ned Zimmerman, Mark Boulton, Søren Birkemeyer, Richard Hemmer, Nick Nisi, Andrew Harvard, shawn j sandy, Takuya Fukuju, John SJ Anderson, Ryan Swaney, Alistair Shepherd, Reach Digital, Ivo Herrmann, Flaki, Kyle Mitofsky, Jenn Schiffer, John Hall, Scott McCracken, James Steinbach, Miriam Suzanne, Bentley Davis, Evan Harrison, Rob Sterlini, vince falconi, Martin Schneider, Stephanie Eckles, Frontend Weekly Tokyo, Higby, Matt DeCamp, Chris Burnell, Ximenav Vf., Juan Miguel, Angelique Weger, Kasper Storgaard, Kevin Healy, Greg Gibson, hiddedevries.nl, Jeremy Caldwell, Michelle Barker, Alesandro Ortiz, David A. Herron, Paul Robert Lloyd, Andrea Vaghi, Bryan Robinson, Ashur Cabrera, Raymond Camden, John Meguerian, Joe Lamyman, Stuart Robson, Jeffrey A Morgan, Joshua Ray, Tim Giles, Brett Nelson, Paul Welsh, Ingo Steinke, Melanie Richards, Rich Holman, Ross Kinney, Lewis Nyman, Dorin Vancea, Marco Zehe, Wes Ruvalcaba, Luc Poupard, Johan Bové, Josh Crain, Entle Web Solutions, Ken Hawkins, Sami Singh, Fershad Irani, Nikita Dubko, Aaron Gustafson, Chris, Ferpection, Benjamin Geese, Maël Brunet, Marcus Relacion, Netin nopeustesti, Bobby Ray, Sia Karamalegos, Christian Miles, Raphael Höser, Cthos, Saneef Ansari, Flemming Meyer, Colin Fahrion, Dan Burzo, Gaston Rampersad, Jon Kuperman, Dan Ott, Mobilemall.pk, Cheap VPS, David Darnes, Jon Roobottom, Dana Byerly, Renkaatsopivasti, Windesol Sähkön Kilpailutus, Luke Mitchell, SignpostMarv, THE PADDING, Bob Monsour, Patrick Byrne, Ara Abcarians, Oisín Quinn, Central Va Insulation, Septic Richmond Va

A new Eleventy mascot from Geri Coady

2021-10-18T00:00:00Z

The Eleventy Mascot is becoming a series! Our project has continued with its pseudo-regular refresh of the famed possum on a balloon and the latest in the series is from acclaimed designer, illustrator, and author Geri Coady!

I really like this iteration and the unique style Geri brought to the project—especially the addition of two littles, which to me is a lovely nod to how our community has grown!

Geri Coady is a color-obsessed Canadian illustrator and designer living in Nottingham, UK. A former ad agency art director, she has worked with companies including Simply Accessible, Nokia Withings, Scholastic, and A List Apart, as well as numerous magazines including Courier and Standart. She is the author of Color Accessibility Workflows by A Book Apart and was voted net Magazine’s Designer of the Year in 2014. Her side business, Geri Draws Japan, showcases her love for Japanese culture through original art prints, pins, stationery and more.

Eleventy Mascot Series Jump to heading

(Unknown Name)

James Williamson. 22 May 2018. Before the possum, there was the cat

Edison

James Williamson. 22 May 2018. James pioneered the static-generating possum.

Grumpy

Phineas X. Jones. 18 December 2019. Our first commissioned iteration.

Masked Grumpy

Remixed by Ben Brignell. 7 July 2020

(Not yet named)

Geri Coady. July 2021. Our second commission! The community has grown.

Elle

David Neal. November 2023. Our third commission! We’re getting smarter.

The State of Eleventy (2021) in Two Minutes

2021-10-08T00:00:00Z

Watch on YouTube
Read a bunch more detail on zachleat.com.

Watch on YouTube

The 11ties: 11 min ⚡️ talks about Eleventy on 11/11

2021-10-08T00:00:00Z

RSVP for this special Jamstack Toronto event in partnership with 11ty:

The 11ties: 11 Minute Talks about 11ty on 11/11

Shout out to Jamstack Conf 2021 Jammies Award Winners

2021-10-07T00:00:00Z

We are super excited to let y’all know that two projects in the Eleventy community have won Jamstack Conf 2021 Jammies Awards!

On the Netlify blog: Jammies Award Winners 2021

On the A11Y Project Blog: The A11Y Project receives a Jammy

Congratulations to Carie Fisher, Dennis Gaebel Jr., Eric Bailey, Jen Downs, Jerry Jones, Saptak Sengupta, Scott Vinkle, Tatiana Mac, and Wayne Elgin for The A11Y Project!

We're humbled to receive this award. Thank you to our contributors and maintainers, the @jamstackconf team and attendees, and to @zachleat and @eleven_ty for making this all possible! https://www.a11yproject.com/announcements/jammies-social-impact-award/ https://twitter.com/jamstackconf/status/1445830291709251593
— The A11Y Project (@A11YProject) October 7, 2021

The Eleventy Meetup wins Outstanding Community Meetup Jump to heading

Congrats to Sia Karamalegos, Stephanie Eckles, and Thomas M. Semmler!

Aw we're feeling all the warm fuzzies over here. Thanks to all our great speakers and attendees too! https://twitter.com/eleven_ty/status/1445807641624662017 https://twitter.com/EleventyMeetup/status/1445808227858280452
— EleventyMeetup (@EleventyMeetup) October 6, 2021

I did want to acknowledge the Jamstack Toronto meetup too, check out their upcoming 11ties Event on 11/11.

Special Recognition Jump to heading

While Eleventy didn’t win our Ecosystem Innovation Award (congrats to Astro!), we did get an honorable mention!

This category was the most interesting voting experience for us. 11ty and Astro had a close call all through the voting process up until the last minute when Astro won the race with 3 extra votes. We recognize 11ty’s impact and all the amazing things it is enabling on the modern web.

The Jammies Awards web site

The very first Eleventy 1.0 Beta Release

2021-10-06T00:00:00Z

It is my absolute honor to announce that the very first Eleventy 1.0 Beta release is now available on the beta channel. You can try it out now:

# Local project
npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta

# Global install
npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta -g

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Requires Node 12+
Eleventy Serverless, a fantastic way to do dynamic server side rendering on request or lazily via Distributed Persistent Rendering.
A plugin to help you upgrade from 0.x to 1.x: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-upgrade-help
Support for CLI arguments to do JSON and NDJSON output (instead of writing to the file system). Use --to=json and --to=ndjson.
Custom File Extension Handlers! Plugins can now add their own template types and tie them to a file extension.
Enables the Data Deep Merge feature by default.
Upgrades to internal template language plugins for: ejs, mustache, liquid. Removes jstl (use 11ty.js instead)
And more! Check out the full list of 135+ issues in the GitHub milestone.

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Our awesome Eleventy GitHub Support Team:
- Pete DeHaan and Binyamin Green
- …and any other folks participating in GitHub Discussions or the Eleventy Discord!
Folks that contributed code, starter projects, plugins, wrote blog posts (share what you learned—on your web site), recorded podcasts or did streams, helped with documentation! Here are a few of our contributors:
- Philipp Rudloff
- Mike Riethmuller
- Alex Russell
- Samuel Path
- gloryofrobots
- André Jaenisch
- Chris D. Macrae
- Benjamin Holmes
- Frank Taillandier (Rest in peace, Frank ❤️)
- Mat Marquis
- Mathias Bynens
- Aravind Voggu
Our awesome community of over 444 documented Eleventy Authors. The absolute best thing you can do is build something for yourself! Here are the top 11 authors (ordered by number of sites) listed on our showcase:
Eleventy Leaderboards (the people that built the sites currently holding the top 11 spots)
- Josh Crain
- Chris Haynes
- Raúl Piracés
- Nic Raboy
- Steve Stedman
- Curtis Jurgensen
- Malte Ubl
- Carie Fisher, Dennis Gaebel Jr., Eric Bailey, Jen Downs, Jerry Jones, Saptak Sengupta, Scott Vinkle, Tatiana Mac, Wayne Elgin
- John Kemp-Cruz
- Reuben Lillie
Eleventy Meetup organized by:
The 11ties, organized last year by Henri Helvetica
Our Sponsors and Open Collective Supporters:

Official CMS Partner

Gold Sponsors

Wow, such a big list! Do you want to help too?

Jamstack Community Survey 2021 Results

2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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Skip to the Technology choices section to read about Frameworks.

Of note:

Major frameworks, where the cut-off is at least 10% usage

Eleventy is classified as a “major framework” here with ~17% usage, which is huge news. Our usage is beyond that of Vite, Svelte, Hugo, Preact, and Jekyll in the Jamstack world!

Relative newcomers Svelte and 11ty are doing very well, with 11ty continuing a strong showing despite relatively low awareness. Early-ish adopters, check these out.

Astute readers might remember that last year’s 2020 survey had some lovely things to say too.

Really appreciate the support, everyone!

Two Million npm Downloads!

2021-09-03T00:00:00Z

Eleventy has passed two million lifetime downloads!

We put up a nice celebratory video on Twitter.

Thanks for the support, y’all!

Join the Eleventy Super Professional Business Network

2021-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the past week I’ve gotten two requests for recommendations for web developers and the best idea I had was to point people to the Eleventy Authors page—but I didn’t know who was freelancing and who wasn’t!

Then I thought y’all might want to let me know if you’re freelancing to make it easier for folks to find you and do business! Thus, the Eleventy Super Professional Business Network was born.

If you want to be listed on the network, find your site JSON in the 11ty-community repo and add your business_* properties. The business_url property is the only thing that’s required. Here are a few valid samples:

{
  "url": "https://www.zachleat.com/",
	"name": "Zach Leatherman",
	"twitter": "zachleat",
	"business_url": "https://www.zachleat.com/hire-me/"
}

{
	"url": "https://www.zachleat.com/",
	"name": "Zach Leatherman",
	"twitter": "zachleat",
	"business_url": "https://www.zachleat.com/hire-me/",
	"business_name": "zachleat Web Design Company"
}

business_url URL for the big “Do Business” buttons
business_name (optional) if you want your Business Name to be different from your site name

This is what it’ll look like on the site:

This business information will also show on your Eleventy Author page too.

Currently the Eleventy Super Professional Business Network is available only to active Open Collective supporters at the Backer tier or above (currently only $5/month). Based on the success of the Business Network the minimum required contribution may increase in the future.

The State of Eleventy (2020) in Two Minutes

2020-10-15T00:00:00Z

Watch on YouTube
Also posted on zachleat.com.

Watch on YouTube

MIT’s new Digital Humanities site launches using Eleventy!

2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In another new exciting launch, we’ve learned that MIT’s new Digital Humanities site was built using Eleventy!

You can see an interview about the new site on Sanity’s Community Spotlight with Bryan Robinson:

Watch on YouTube

Awesome work by Mike Wagz and the Self Aware crew.

Join our Discord Server!

2020-08-10T00:00:00Z

It has been long requested that we create a space for the Eleventy Community to gather and hang out. A welcoming space for beginners to Eleventy to ask questions without some of the intimidation that might accompany opening a GitHub issue.

Wait no longer. We have created a Discord server! Join us with this special invite code: discord.gg/GBkBy9u

JSNation Open Source Awards 2020

2020-06-15T00:00:00Z

Just want to highlight that Eleventy was nominated for the JSNation Conference 2020 Open Source Awards category: Breakthrough of the Year alongside:

Deno
TailwindCSS
Alpine.js
Eleventy
Svelte.js

Winners for the cateogry were Deno and Svelte.

State of the Jamstack Survey 2020 Results

2020-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yes, it took me a long while to add this to the blog but I did want to include it in the archives. Netlify does a Jamstack Community Survey every year to gauge trends in the Jamstack world and the results post had a glowing mention of Eleventy:

Relative newcomer 11ty had an amazing satisfaction score

Really appreciate the support, everyone!

How do I get an Eleventy Sticker?

2020-02-05T00:00:00Z

In order to minimize administrative overhead, to receive an Eleventy sticker you must find someone with Eleventy stickers and ask for one. Verbally. In person. They are not distributed on conference sticker tables. They are not mailed. They are not shipped. They travel only by sneakernet.

Our current list of Eleventy Sticker Ambassadors includes:

Zach Leatherman (👋🏻 hi)
Manuel Matuzović

This list of Sticker Ambassadors may expand as time goes on. You will need to find out which meetups/conferences/events our Sticker Ambassadors are going to, attend those events, and talk to them! As an introvert, I know this is terrible (sorry).

An Homage to the James Williamson Possum Balloon

2019-12-19T00:00:00Z

As many of you may know, James Williamson first came up with animal suspended from the floating red balloon logo for the Eleventy project in May of 2018.

It was originally a cat!

James’ quickly iterated to the now-iconic Eleventy possum.

Why a possum? Why is the possum floating? Why a balloon? Exactly. 42.

To honor James, I thought it might be nice to commission a professional interpretation of his original vision. After Ethan Marcotte shared some possum content from Phineas X. Jones, I knew we had the artist to make this a reality.

Literally three days later, I am proud to show you all something that I hope James would have really enjoyed.

You can see more of Phineas’ work on octophant.us, Instagram, or Twitter.

We also maintain a Twitter Moment of community contributed logos.

A special note of remembrance for James Williamson

2019-12-18T00:00:00Z

I just want to take a brief moment to remember the very special James Williamson who passed away earlier this month. James was diagnosed with ALS in 2013 and was known for his widespread teaching contributions to the web community. Probably the least of which, but one that I will always remember, was his creation of the floating possum mascot for our little Eleventy project. This mascot (nay, mastcot, because it lives in the masthead ok fine but James would have liked that one) lives at the top of the Eleventy docs and links to the Twitter thread he started in 2018. Though we never met in real life, James was clearly a one-of-a-kind. We will miss you ❤️

Donations may be made in James’ name to The ALS Therapy Development Institute or to Quest Youth Ministries at St. John's United Methodist Church.

Eleventy Docs Moved from 11ty.io to 11ty.dev

2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

The Eleventy project is deprecating the 11ty.io domain and moving to 11ty.dev. 11ty.dev now has feature parity and the 11ty.io DNS will begin redirecting to 11ty.dev as soon as your DNS updates.

A couple of wrinkles here:

We switched DNS providers to enable proper forwarding behavior here (including all prior versions of docs on subdomains). This may result in some temporary downtime for 11ty.io URLs, but they will begin forwarding correctly in a matter of time. Sorry for this!
Eleventy Contributor Accounts need to be migrated to 11ty.dev. This means you’ll need to set a new password for your account. Check your email for new invite links.

This was no small thing! (But it wasn’t too terrible either). We migrated:

All versioned documentation subdomains (×15) (e.g. the Eleventy v0.5.3 documentation)
Netlify custom features (Analytics) and for Contributor Accounts: Identity and Serverless Functions for auth.
Web Hooks to run the docs build every day to update avatars and footer stats.
GitHub repo renamed to a more generic 11ty/11ty-website (GitHub handles the redirects here)

Why? Jump to heading

This has been on the agenda for about six months. Tatiana Mac said it better:

ICYMI: .io domains benefit the British government and not the Chagossian and Ilois people that they should, whom the Brits expelled from their island home.

So, migrating off of .io domains is one way to exhibit solidarity.

Read more: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ twitter.com/eleven_ty/status/…4224
— Tatiana Mac (@TatianaTMac) December 5, 2019

Some good discussion on Tatiana’s tweet about this as well.

Cool URIs Don’t Change Jump to heading

A number of you lovely people 🧐 have pointed out that our documentation prominently links to the classic W3C slogan “Cool URIs don’t change.” While it may be tempting to latch onto the dictionary definition of change, the spirit of this idea still holds true! Published URLs are a maintenance task and our prior URLs are still being actively maintained with redirects.

A small step in the right direction Jump to heading

This may be a purely symbolic gesture for now as we do plan to keep the .io redirects in place for awhile. But having our canonical domain off of the .io TLD is an important gesture to make and creates space to retire .io completely at some point in the future. Appreciate your patience with this transition.

Eleventy Blog

Eight Million npm Downloads!

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We want you to speak at the 11ty Conference!

Register now for the 11ty Conference!

We’re running an 11ty Conference!

Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0

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Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy

A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal!

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Big Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon!

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The Eleventy Community Survey (2023)

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The Stability of Eleventy

The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind

Five Million npm Downloads!

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We’re on Product Hunt Today!

Eleventy v2.0.0, The Stable Release

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The `v8` release of Eleventy’s Base Blog starter project using Eleventy 2.0

The very first beta release of Eleventy v2.0

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Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Results

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The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes

Represent Eleventy in the State of JavaScript Survey 2022

Four Million npm Downloads!

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Three Million npm Downloads!

Use Eleventy Edge to deliver dynamic web sites on the Edge

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New Eleventy YouTube Channel

Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify

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Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release.

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