Grease is a website starter that makes building performant, accessible, aesthetic websites fast & frictionless. It uses 11ty, Lightning CSS, esbuild, and includes a lightweight, declarative CSS architecture that sets you up for success.
- designed for in-browser design - Ultra-fast tools (11ty, Esbuild, Lightning CSS) plus incremental builds makes designing in browser a joy.
- fluid, variable type - A straightforward fluid type system pre-loaded for variable fonts keeps your type game on point.
- no fillers, no additives - Grease keeps it light so you can focus on building instead of messing around with tools and frameworks.
- zero-config entrypoints - Import everything into monolithic CSS and JS bundles? Break out page bundles? Inline critical CSS? YES!
- no production surprises - CSS and JS are treated the same on dev as on production (bundled, minified, etc). What you see is what you’ll get.
- batteries included - Production-ready odds & ends come in the box. Sitemaps, canonical URLs, search index blocking, etc.
Install Node if you haven’t already. Once you’ve cloned this repo, run npm install to download the various dependencies. To run the local dev server, run npm start. Check your terminal output for the URL, but it’ll default to http://localhost:8080 unless that port is already in use.