Bymattlee 11ty Starter
A starter boilerplate powered by 11ty, Sanity, Gulp, Tailwind CSS, rollup.js, Alpine.js and Highway.
Overview
The ByMattLee 11ty Starter is a starter boilerplate powered by 11ty, Sanity, Gulp, Tailwind CSS, rollup.js, Alpine.js, and Taxi.js. It provides a robust set of features and tools to easily create static websites.
Features
- Gulp as the build pipeline for rendering HTML, compiling styles and scripts, and optimizing assets
- Data sourced from the Sanity Cloud API, integrating seamlessly with the ByMattLee Sanity Studio Starter
- Local development environment with Browsersync for automatic browser reloads upon file updates
- 11ty as the static site generator, with minified markup in staging and production environments
- Easy configuration with options to update Sanity settings and environment URLs in the config.js file
- Tailwind CSS for a utility-first framework, including SCSS files with linter, autoprefixer, minification, and sourcemap creation
- Rollup.js as the module bundler with linting, concatenation, minification, and sourcemap creation
- Taxi.js for smooth page transitions and a custom framework for animated content
- Alpine.js for declarative DOM manipulation
- Optimization and responsive generation of images and SVGs
- Sitemap and robots.txt generation based on HTML files in the build
Summary
The ByMattLee 11ty Starter is a powerful boilerplate that combines several popular technologies to streamline the development process of static websites. With features such as a responsive build pipeline, seamless data integration with Sanity, and optimized asset management, it offers a comprehensive solution for building modern websites.
- 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.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that simplifies the process of creating dynamic, reactive user interfaces on the web. It uses a declarative syntax that offers a higher level of abstraction compared to vanilla JavaScript, while being more performant and easier to use than jQuery.
- 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.
- Gulp
Gulp.js is an old but popular site building tool that automates various repetitive development tasks in web development, such as compiling Sass, minifying JavaScript, and optimizing images.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Rollup
RollupJS is a popular and efficient JavaScript module bundler that takes the code from multiple modules and packages them into a single optimized file, minimizing the overall size of the application and improving its performance.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.