Build An Eleventy (11ty) Site From Scratch
Instructor
Stephanie Eckles
Start from a blank project and build up to an Eleventy site that includes a blog collection and is prepared to source content from a headless CMS. You'll also learn how to add Sass as the styling solution, complete with triggering 11ty to re-compile when the Sass changes.
These lessons will help explain key 11ty features and concepts to help you make the most of this amazing static site generator.
By the last lesson, you'll have learned how to:
- define custom
inputandoutputdirectories - create a layout that accesses front matter variables
- watch for Sass changes and include CSS in the build proces
- create an 11ty collection using
tags - define front matter for an entire collection
- make and apply a filter to a collection
- generate pages from an external data source, such as a CMS or API
Free Community Resource
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Learner Reviews
- James Anderton3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Great course, but needs to be updated as some additional steps no longer required.
- Hugh McKenna3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Just the right amount of info to get going. Easy to scan the video at first, then write the code and a nice summary at the end to check everything.
- Sven4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Very clear, with an essential takeway. Excellent diction too, which helps when you don't have english as your first language. The course also is essential in its content which is good and frustrating :) Very good work!
- Davida Gaffney4 years agoWhat would make this collection a 7 for you?
A little bit longer time spent on code view so I could follow along better. I had to stop and start and rewind a bunch. Not a huuuuge deal though. Very cool set of tutorials!
- Victor4 years agoWhat would make this collection a 7 for you?
Excellent collection of videos. The only problem I see is that there is over-use of nanjucks templating logic within the markdown pages, instead of employing partials and/or individual layout templates (which I believe would be more standard in SSG's) thereby offering more separation of content and logic. Of course, this may be a question of taste, since the use of nunjucks logic inside a markdown file offers a very flexible "mdx" kind of approach and does show off eleventy's remarkable flexibility. I did love the simplicity of the lessons, however. A huge amount covered in a short space.
- James Hall4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Quick and very informative, and provides a great entry to 11ty. Thanks.
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