FLY-11ty

Simple boilerplate for Static Site Generator eleventy — build with webpack, tailwind, purgeCSS & postCSS

Demo: https://brachycera.github.io/fly-11ty/

Features & Tools

• Layout with Tailwind
• ServiceWorker with Workbox
• RSS Feed
• Sitemap for SEO
• Metatags
• Article Tags
• Pagination
• Syntax Highlighting
• BrowserSync
• Babel

Installation

Clone or copy the project and run npm install.

Configuration

Eleventy

Open the 11ty configuration file .eleventy.js and change the values to your likening.

"Default Values" for Meta/SEO Tags

Meta/SEO Tags for title, description, image, twitter etc. will be automatically created with https://github.com/artstorm/eleventy-plugin-seo

    let options = {
        ...
        ...
        title: 'Add custom HTML (Meta) Title',
        description: 'Add custom HTML meta description',
        url: 'https://www.XXX.XX',
        author: 'XXX',
        twitter: 'XXX',
        image: 'https://www.XXX.XX/default_image.png'
    };

RSS Feed Configuration

Configure the RSS Feed information in /src/feed.njk - https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss

    "metadata": {
        "title": "My RSS feed",
        "subtitle": "XXX",
        "url": "https://www.XXX.XX/",
        "feedUrl": "https://www.XXX.XX/feed.xml",
        "author": {
            "name": "XXX",
            "email": "XXX@XXX.XX"
        }
    }

BrowerSync Settings

Change the settings for browsersync.io as needed.

    eleventyConfig.setBrowserSyncConfig({
        ...
        host: 'localhost',
        server: false,
        proxy: 'localhost',
        port: 8080,
        ...
    });

Assets

In case any assets like images, web-fonts, etc. needs to be copied from src to dist.

    /**********************************
     *        Copy Assets
     **********************************/

    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy('src/img');
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy('src/blog/img');

    ...

Tools

Besides from .eleventy.js there a some more configuration files:

• postcss.config.js
• tailwind.config.js
• webpack.config.js
• workbox.config.js

Content

All Content files are in the src folder. The supported formats are md, njk or html.

Three eleventy commands are available debug, watch and serve - https://www.11ty.dev/docs/usage/

$ npm run eleventy:debug

$ npm run eleventy:watch

$ npm run eleventy:serve

Example-File: src/blog/myBlogPost.md

---
date: 2020-08-15
title: "My First Blog Post"
permalink: "blog//{{ page.date | date: '%Y' }}/{{ title | slug }}/index.html"
excerpt: "This should be an excerpt"
tags: [ movie, films ]
---

<h1>
    <a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ title }}</a>
</h1>

**{{ excerpt }}**

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Development

There are three npm commands for creating a Layout or a production build.

$ npm run build

$ npm run dev

$ npm run dev:watch

• PostCSS
  • cssnano
  • tailwind
  • autoprefixer
  • purgecss
• Babel
• minify HTML/JS/CSS
• BrowserSync
• WorkBox (ServiceWorker)

Layout

Template files for the Layout can be found in the _includes/layout/

CSS files are in src/css

JS files are in src/js