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Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time

January 31, 2019 Tagged: Eleventy

Older iterations of this website used a third party JavaScript widget to show the number of GitHub Stars the project currently had. This was in fact the only <script> tag on the entire 11ty.dev web site and it was from a third party. Naturally, it needed to be annihilated.

Originally posted at: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/eliminate-js/

Zach’s ugly mug (his face)

Zach is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/CloudCannon. He created IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 72 talks in nine different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

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