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Issue 4

Apr 18, 2023 · 1 release · 14 posts · 8 sites

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Recent releases 1

Eleventy Syntax Highlighter v5.0.0

A pack of Eleventy plugins for syntax highlighting in Markdown, Liquid, and Nunjucks templates. - Release Eleventy Syntax Highlighter v5.0.0 · 11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight

Apr 11, 2023

Posts from around the web 14

Process CSS or Sass With LightningCSS

Use these plugins or code snippets to make CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.

Feb 25, 2023

Stephanie Eckles (21)

Static Site Generation with Eleventy (YouTube)

YouTube video

Sep 26, 2022

Shawn Wildermuth (1)

Webmention Setup for Eleventy

Here’s a quick run-through of how I retrieve and use Webmentions with my Eleventy website.

Aug 25, 2022

Chris Burnell (8)

Building a design system with Eleventy

How to use this flexible static site generator to create the home for digital design in your company

May 16, 2022

Trys Mudford (2)

How I built Around the Web

How I added a new format to my website, automated publication to a newsletter, and added categories.

Mar 15, 2022

Oscar (3)

Eleventy Custom Content Type Collections and Layouts

How-to on creating separate collections and layouts for a custom content type. In this case: cocktails!

Jan 04, 2022

Josh Cunningham (2)

Includes and Macros

Comparing techniques for encapsulating HTML components in Nunjucks or Jinja2.

Nov 20, 2021

Evan Sheehan (8)

Using parameters in your eleventy includes with nunjucks macros

Includes are great. But for actual reusability of code, parameters are always needed. Luckily, nunjucks makes this possible with macros!

Aug 10, 2021

Thomas Semmler (3)

Modular code with Nunjucks and Eleventy

These days, web development and design are all about modularization and components. Template languages have a lot to offer and Eleventy itself has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Aug 06, 2021

Jérôme Coupé (10)

A Deep Dive Into Eleventy Static Site Generator

Learn what makes Eleventy unique, and about some essential concepts to help you successfully get started.

Mar 24, 2021

Stephanie Eckles (21)

Encapsulated Eleventy/Nunjucks components with macros

How to pass parameters to an include in Nunjucks

Feb 19, 2021

Trys Mudford (2)

Group posts by year in Eleventy

Using a custom 11ty collection to group post by any attribute.

Jan 31, 2021

Darek Kay (5)

Create a Custom Collection with Eleventy

If you've built sites using Eleventy, you're probably familiar with collections. Using the Configuration API allows for creating custom collections which can be useful to only show certain posts on your site.

Oct 31, 2020

Tanner Dolby (2)

Basic custom taxonomies with Eleventy

Eleventy comes with a built-in tagging system. For a recent project, I wanted to use my own category system, which led me to dive a bit deeper into extending and configuring Eleventy.

Mar 04, 2020

Jérôme Coupé (10)

Built with Eleventy 8

The Globe Church

All about Jesus. Made up of all sorts of people. Involved in the greatest mission…

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bram.is

My name is Bram Smulders and I am a front-end UI developer from The Netherlands. I specialise in scalable code for apps and websites with a strong focus on accessibility, progressive enhancement and powerful, speedy development.

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Bruce Taylor

Bruce is a Frontend Web Developer & UI Engineer based in the south east of England. Specialising in crafting performant, user-friendly, responsive, accessible, and resilient websites. Build from scratch or enhance your existing website for a lasting online presence.