patrickhaug / cucoux

Opiniated Eleventy starter based on the workflow suggested by Andy Bell's buildexcellentwebsit.es.

Eleventy Excellent

Opiniated but easy to use Eleventy starter, based on the workflow suggested by Andy Bell's buildexcellentwebsit.es.

If you end up using this starter, feel free to send me a link, I'd love to see it! Also let me know if you miss any features. Currently in planning: automatically generated OpenGraph images (as fallback) and dark mode.

• Eleventy Excellent
  • Preview
  • Features
  • First steps
  • Deploy directly to Netlify
  • Development
    • Install dependencies
    • Working locally
    • Creating a production build
  • Built with Eleventy Excellent
  • Logbook
    • 22-12-13
    • 22-12-12
    • 22-11-24
    • 22-11-04
    • 22-10-30
    • 22-10-04
    • 22-10-03
  • Credits and Thank yous

Preview

https://eleventy-excellent.netlify.app/

Features

This starter includes:

• The whole CSS workflow as suggested by buildexcellentwebsit.es
• Accessible site navigation, editable in src/_data/navigation.js
• Image optimization with Eleventy-img (see blog post)
• Youtube embed with lite-youtube (see blog post)
• Easy resource fetching with eleventy-fetch (see blog post)
• Syntax highlighting via eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight (see blog post)
• Advanced markdown handling (see blog post)
• SEO basics (XML-sitemap, metadata)
• dayjs handling dates & times
• 301 redirects for Netlify
• Bundling via esbuild
• RSS feed
• Links to social networks in footer
• Mastodon domain verification snippet

First steps

• Important: edit meta data in src/_data/meta.js, it's being used all over the template.
• Search for 'eleventy-excellent.netlify.app'. You'll find an entry in src/assets/css/global/global-styles.css. Replace with your own domain.
• Edit your social media in src/_data/social.js and src/_includes/icons. If you add new icons they must be prefixed with "social-". By default you have rss, mastodon, twitter, ko-fi, linkedin and github. Great resource: https://lucide.dev/
• Not required, but recommended: Delete github.js in src/_data/github.js and the blog posts, as these serve only as an example.
• Edit your preferences (colors, fluid text sizes etc.) in src/assets/css/design-tokens.
• Optional: set your (favicon) icons in src/assets/images/favicon.

Deploy directly to Netlify

Development

Install dependencies

npm install

Working locally

Starts watch tasks to compile when changes detected

npm start

Creating a production build

Minify JS, inline and minify CSS.

npm run build

Built with Eleventy Excellent

• stephenanfield.com
• krgr.dev
• lenesaile.com

Logbook

22-12-13

• added JS and CSS as as first-class citizens in Eleventy, out of the npm scripts.
• imported htmlmin transform, css and js processing with eleventyConfig.addPlugin(require("other-config-file.js")), see https://front-end.social/@[e-mail]/109501433721579265

22-12-12

• updated head structure for better performance
• added "built with this" section in readme
• added note for internal links in markdown blog post
• adding page based preload option, making preload of monospaced font in posts default to avoid CLS

22-11-24

• updated required node version in package.json
• meta.js now controls most of the templates defaults
• added RSS feed, because of course!!
• made twitter and other meta data OPTIONAL
• added Mastodon verification and more social icon defaults
• focus-within for the cards

22-11-04

• added blog posts for feature explanation

22-10-30

• WebC in own branch
• simplify main branch

22-10-04

• all markdown syntax set

22-10-03

• first commit. Updated

Credits and Thank yous

Andy Bell

His CSS methodology "CUBE" makes sense to me. It goes hand in hand with Every Layout (which he co-authors). He has recently published an approach that incorporates Tailwind CSS into his methodology. Also, I learned how to use Eleventy in 2020 with his (now free) course.

• https://cube.fyi/
• https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/
• https://learneleventyfromscratch.com/

Heydon Pickering

I strongly orientate myself on Heydon's approaches and really love his books.

• https://every-layout.dev/
• https://inclusive-components.design/

Zach Leatherman

He is developing Eleventy and is constantly making it even better!

• https://www.11ty.dev/
• https://www.zachleat.com/

Stephanie Eckles

Stephanie provides a lot of resources for Eleventy and modern CSS.

• https://smolcss.dev/
• https://moderncss.dev/

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

I love order and structure. Aleksandr does this in an exemplary way, which is why I based the structure of eleventy.js on his personal site. The 301 redirect solution I'm using is from his blog.

• https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan
• https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/eleventy-netlify-redirects/

Manuel Matuzović

Manuel is an accessibility expert. The menu I'm using is from one of his articles on web.dev.

• https://web.dev/website-navigation/
• https://www.matuzo.at/