Eleventy Starter Boilerplate
Eleventy Starter is production-ready with SEO-friendly for quickly starting a blog. Built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack 5, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS 2 and Netlify CMS (optional).
Overview:
Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is a production-ready theme designed for quickly starting a blog. It is built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS, and optional Netlify CMS. This theme provides a minimalist blog template and includes features such as SEO metadata, lazy loading of images, syntax highlighting, linter, code formatter, live reload, module bundler, 404 page, pagination, cache busting, and more. It is designed to be customizable and SEO-friendly, and requires Node.js and npm to run.
Features:
- Production-ready static site generation using Eleventy
- Integration with Tailwind CSS, with PurgeCSS to remove unused CSS
- PostCSS for processing Tailwind CSS
- Lazy loading of images with lazysizes
- Image compression with Imagemin
- Syntax highlighting with Prism.js
- HTML & CSS minification using HTMLMinifier and cssnano
- Linter with ESLint
- Code formatting with Prettier
- Live reload for development
- Module bundler with Webpack
- Templating with EJS
- SEO metadata and Open Graph tags
- JSON-LD for richer indexing
- Eleventy
11ty is a static site generator that allows developers to build fast, modern websites using HTML, Markdown, and other templating languages, without the need for a complex build system.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- NetlifyCMS
Netlify CMS is a powerful and flexible content management system that is designed to work seamlessly with the Netlify platform. Netlify CMS provides a user-friendly interface for managing content, including support for custom content types, localization, and asset management.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.
