Issue 69 - 11ty MEETUP TOMORROW, Node JS profiling docs, Key releases, Retaining optimized images across builds...And 3 releases, 10 posts and 14 sites to see

Mar 19, 2025

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Welcome to Issue 69 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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A note from Bob:

Good news! Knee replacement surgery went well. Tomorrow will be the 2-week mark. I'm sleeping slightly better (and slightly is doing a lot of work there). The pain has reached a more manageable level and I've had a little time to keep the firehose operational. Thanks to all of you who reached out with well wishes. I really appreciate it.

11ty meetup tomorrow. Tomorrow's Eleventy Meetup features David Moll, discussing "Umami + 11ty: A Privacy-First selfhosted approach to Web Analytics" and Zach Leatherman discussing "Blog Awesome, from WordPress to 11ty — walkthrough the imminently shipping Font Awesome blog." Check out the virtual event details. I'll be there, possibly without bells.

Node JS profiling docs. New in the docs is some great info on performance profiling node.js, "The most reliable mechanism for tracking down performance issues in any Node.js based code is to use Node’s built-in CPU Profiling feature (Node v12+)."

Key releases. Check out the releases section below, there are performance improvements and bug fixes galore.

Retaining optimized images across builds. Murtuzaali Surti shows how to maintain optimized images across build in the .cache folder. This is a great build-time performance booster as unchanged images need not be re-optimized. Check it out.

Until next time...

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