Eleventy Web Starter
Eleventy Web Starter is a lightweight Eleventy boilerplate utilising, ESBuild Tailwind and PostCSS.
Overview:
The project uses Eleventy as a static site generator with Nunjucks as the default templating language. It is set up with PostCSS to handle TailwindCSS, CSS imports, autoprefixer, and PurgeCSS to remove unused CSS in production. The project also minifies HTML, inlines and minifies CSS, and uses esbuild to bundle and minify scripts. The document <head> is crafted using htmlhead.dev. Deployment can be done on any web server or service, with Netlify being recommended.
Features:
- Eleventy as a static site generator
- Default templating language is Nunjucks
- PostCSS set up for handling TailwindCSS, CSS imports, autoprefixer, and PurgeCSS
- HTML minification in production
- Inlining and minification of CSS in production
- esbuild used for bundling and minifying scripts
- <head> crafted using htmlhead.dev
- Deployment can be done on any web server or service, with Netlify being recommended
- 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.
