🚀 Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is production-ready with SEO-friendly for quickly starting a blog. ⚡️ Built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS and Netlify CMS (optional).

Clone this project and use it to create your own Eleventy blog. You can check a Eleventy templates demo.

Production-ready in mind:

• 🔥 11ty for Static Site Generator
• 🎨 Integrate with Tailwind CSS (with PurgeCSS, remove unused CSS)
• 💅 PostCSS for processing Tailwind CSS
• ⚡️ Lazy load images with lazysizes
• ✨ Compress image with Imagemin
• 🎈 Syntax Highlighting with Prism.js
• ☕ Minify HTML & CSS with HTMLMinifier and cssnano
• ✏️ Linter with ESLint
• 🛠 Code Formatter with Prettier
• 💨 Live reload
• 📦 Module Bundler with Webpack
• 🦊 Templating with EJS
• 🤖 SEO metadata and Open Graph tags
• ⚙️ JSON-LD for richer indexing
• 🗺 Sitemap.xml
• ⚠️ 404 page
• 📖 Pagination
• ✅ Cache busting
• 💯 Maximize lighthouse score
• 🌈 Include a FREE minimalist blog theme
• 🗒 Netlify CMS (optional)

• Minimal code (HTML, CSS & JS). Add what you need
• SEO-friendly
• 🚀 Production-ready

• Node.js and npm

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Run the following command on your local environment:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ixartz/Eleventy-Starter-Boilerplate.git my-project-name
cd my-project-name
npm install

Then, you can run locally in development mode with live reload:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:8080 with your favorite browser to see your blog.

.
├── public             # Static files
│   └── assets
│       └── images     # Images not needed by Webpack
└── src
    ├── _data          # Eleventy data folder
    ├── _includes
    │   └── layouts    # HTML layout files
    ├── assets         # Assets folder that needs to be processed by Webpack
    │   ├── images
    │   │   └── posts  # Images used in your blog posts (will be compressed by Webpack)
    │   └── styles     # Your blog CSS files
    └── posts          # Your blog posts

You can easily configure Eleventy Starter Boilerplate. Please change the following file:

• public/assets/images/logo.png: your blog logo
• public/apple-touch-icon.png, public/favicon.ico, public/favicon-16x16.png and public/favicon-32x32.png: your blog favicon, you can generate from https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/
• src/_data/site.json: your blog configuration
• src/_includes/layouts: your blog HTML layout
• src/assets/styles/main.css: your blog CSS file using Tailwind CSS

You can see the results locally in production mode with:

npm run serve

The generated HTML and CSS files are minified. It will also removed unused CSS from Tailwind CSS.

You can create an optimized production build with:

npm run build

Now, your blog is ready to be deployed. All generated files are located at _site folder, which you can deploy with any hosting service.

Clone this repository on own GitHub account and deploy to Netlify:

If you don't use Netlify, you can easily remove all Netlify related files:

• public/admin, the entier folder
• src/_includes/layouts/base.ejs, the loaded script netlify-identity-widget.js and the inline script if (window.netlifyIdentity) { ...
• netlify.toml, the entire file

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this project. Feel free to open an issue if you have question or found a bug.

Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright © 2020

See LICENSE for more information.

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