Quick Start #
Eleventy v0.12.0 requires Node 10 or newer. Use node --version
on the command line to find your local Node version.
npm install -g @11ty/eleventy
echo '# Page header' > README.md
eleventy
This will compile any files matching valid input template file extensions (.md
is one of them) in the current directory into the output folder (defaults to _site
).
Writing _site/README/index.html from ./README.md.
Wrote 1 file in 0.11 seconds (v0.11.0)
Run eleventy --serve
to start up a web server. Then open http://localhost:8080/README/
in your web browser of choice to see your Eleventy output.
➡ Keep going! Read a longer Getting Started guide or check out the full Documentation for v0.12.0.
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Latest News #
MIT’s new Digital Humanities site launches using Eleventy! (2020 August 11)
Documentation for Eleventy v0.12.0Todd and Bruce said this button should be bigger and as you can see they were right
Built With Eleventy #
- 11ty.dev
- The A11Y Project
- CERN WorldWideWeb Rebuild
- Chrome Dev Summit 2019
- CSS Tricks Conferences
- Duet Design System
- ESLint
- ffconf
- Khan Academy Report
- MIT Digital Humanities
- Netlify
- Google V8
- web.dev
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Don’t take my word for it
#Listen to what these happy developers are saying about Eleventy:
Read the replies to: “Fans of Eleventy.... why do you like it better than other static site generators?”
“Seriously can't remember enjoying using a Static Site Generator this much. Yes Hugo is rapid, but this is all so logical. It feels like it was designed by someone who has been through lots of pain and success using other SSGs.” —Phil Hawksworth
“I actually used Eleventy for the first time this week. Loved it.” —Paul Lewis
“Think the reason everyone is loving [Eleventy] so much (myself included) is that it doesn't come with a prescription about data sources or template rendering.” —Brian Leroux
“Eleventy is almost fascinatingly simple.” —Chris Coyier
“Jekyll is dead to me” —Andy Bell
“Don’t tell Zach I said it but Eleventy is seeming fresh as hell so far” —Mat Marquis
“I heard Eleventy was good” —Lach Zeatherman
“Eleventy is absolutely wonderful. It’s by far the nicest static site generator I’ve used in what feels like forever.” —Addy Osmani
“Eleventy is my fave.” —Tatiana Mac
“I looked into and actively tried using various static site generators for this project. Eleventy was the only one I could find that gave me the fine-grained control I needed at blazingly fast build times.” —Mathias Bynens
“Eleventy + Netlify have become my new workflow for static sites. I think I'm in love.” —Mina Markham
“Eleventy and web components go really, really well together.” —Justin Fagnani
“Just the kind of simple / common sense tool I love. The data/folder hierarchy mechanism is super obvious and elegant.” —Heydon Pickering
“Eleventy is a killer static site generator. That’s all.” —Sara Soueidan