Issue 52 - Zach's Eleventy Weekly Report №7, Official Template Language Plugins, Simpler drafts in alpha.17, Migrations from Jekyll, Turning arbitrary files into a collection, 11ty and the Salesforce API, Generating a responsive CSS background image...And 4 releases, 10 posts, and 11 sites to see

Jul 16, 2024

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Welcome to Issue 52 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.

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My ass has been dragging this week, but here we go...better late than never.

Zach's Eleventy Weekly Report №7. Here's Zach's Mastodon post where he's been outlining his weekly progress on all things Eleventy, some of which I recap below.

Official Template Language Plugins. Zach has released template language plugins for ejs, handlebars, mustache, and haml. Here are links to the docs for each. Note that these are 3.0 and higher only.

• ejs docs
• handlebars docs
• mustache docs
• haml docs

Note also that these are not part of the core of Eleventy, but have to be installed individually. See ejs, handlebars, mustache, and haml for more information.

Simpler drafts in alpha.17. Zach has been working on a simpler way to handle drafts in Eleventy. This will be available in the yet-to-be-released alpha.17. See this issue comment for more information.

Migrations from Jekyll. Two of this week's post discuss their migration from Jekyll to Eleventy and the "why" behind them. Joining us are Ethan Marcotte and Chris Henrick.

Turning arbitrary files into a collection. David Darnes posed the question of how to loop through arbitrary files in Eleventy. As it turns out, it was easier than he thought. See the discussion in this Mastodon thread.

11ty and the Salesforce API. Jeff Sikes has an interesting post on how he used Eleventy to pull data from the Salesforce API. Here's his post.

Generating a responsive CSS background image. Phil Rentier Digital has a fascinating post on how he used the image plugin to generate a responsive CSS background image. He worked it all out with the help of our exceptional Discord community.

There are more great posts in this week's list below...and this is getting longer than usual, so please browse down below and see what's new.

Until next time...

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