Eleventy Web Starter
Eleventy Web Starter is a lightweight Eleventy boilerplate utilising, ESBuild Tailwind and PostCSS.
Overview:
The project is a static site generator that uses Eleventy with default templating in Nunjucks. It handles CSS with PostCSS, including TailwindCSS, CSS Imports, Autoprefixer, and PurgeCSS to remove unused CSS in production. HTML is minified, CSS is inlined and minified, and scripts are bundled and minified using esbuild. The document head is crafted using htmlhead.dev.
Features:
- Eleventy as a static site generator
- Default templating in Nunjucks
- PostCSS setup for handling TailwindCSS, CSS Imports, Autoprefixer, and PurgeCSS
- HTML minification in production
- CSS inlined and minified in production
- Scripts bundled and minified using esbuild
- Document head crafted using htmlhead.dev
- 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.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- 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.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.
