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Issue 20 - A safe landing on Google Sheets...7 million npm downloads...11tybundle site posts arrive in the docs...And 10 posts and 7 sites to see.

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Welcome to Issue 20 of the 11ty Bundle. 11ty, aka Eleventy, is a "simpler static site generator" that is designed to be simple, flexible, and highly customizable. It is built on Node.js and allows developers to create websites by transforming templates and data into static HTML files. It supports multiple template languages, giving developers the freedom to choose the languages that best suit the needs of their project.

A safe landing on Google Sheets

If you recall from the last issue, I had moved the data that drives the site from Airtable to Google Sheets. Since that time, with the help of @Aankhen, a prolific helper on the Discord server, I successfully moved the site to use the Google Sheets API to get the data directly at build time, rather than the method I was using. This is a much cleaner solution and I'm very happy with it. The workflow is better than what I had with Airtable and I'm back to having nightly builds of the site.

[UPDATE: 10-31-2023]: I wrote about how I got this working here.

7 million npm downloads

Zach announced yet another major milestone of Eleventy usage. Eleventy passed seven million lifetime downloads!

11tybundle site posts arrive in the docs

And if that wasn't enough news, Zach reached out to me and asked if I'd be willing to generate a json file of the posts in the CMS category for use on the new CMS page in the docs. I was happy to do so and you can see the results here. We hope to be adding more of these for selected other pages in the docs. So now you have two places where you'll find the posts that are included here on the site.

10 posts and 7 sites to see

Well, I guess the heading says it all for this section.

Until next time...

Recent releases

No new releases since the last issue.

Posts from around the web since the last Bundle issue

Better word counts and reading time in Eleventy (11ty)

A short tutorial on how to count words and determine the reading time using Eleventy.

Oct 29, 2023

Categories: How to...Plugins

A short tutorial on how to find backlinks (pages that link to the current page) using Eleventy

Oct 29, 2023

Categories: How to...Plugins

Cleaning up the 11ty config

The eleventy config file can get cluttered quickly so I cleaned mine up

Oct 29, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

I've switched to Eleventy: my thoughts

In this article, I will talk about why I switched, how I did it, and my thoughts about Eleventy as a new user.

Oct 27, 2023

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Building a photography website

The setup for sharing my photo gallery.

Oct 25, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesNavigationImage Galleries

Seven Million npm Downloads

Seven Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

Oct 23, 2023

Categories: Deployment

Clean Up Your Config File

MooseDog Studios - Where Convention Takes A Back Seat To Quality

Oct 23, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Headless kiosk application (with Kirby CMS)

Use Kirby and 11ty to generate a headless kiosk application hat works offline.

Oct 1, 2023

Categories: CMSHow to...Images

Built with Eleventy

Here are the new sites to see. If you want to see more sites, check out the Eleventy Leaderboards.

rubenwardy

Hi, I'm rubenwardy. I'm a software engineer, an open source contributor, and a graduate from the...

Juan Mier

personal portfolio website that collects all my projects and professional experiences.

Ed Millington

The personal site of Ed Millington, a front-end web developer based in Christchurch, NZ.

Bigaston

Game developper and content creator.

CDN Planet

No CDN is the same. With useful, factual information and handy tools we help you select the right...

from jason

Odes & Satires, and other matters of stuff & things.

temporal harmony garden

a little subsite in the lower Discworld, a small personal blog of parth shiralkar

Ginger

A blog about web development, handy tutorials, quick rants, thoughts, and everything in between.

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