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Blog posts and tutorials for the Eleventy static site generator. You can read more at the Eleventy News Blog. This website is generated using Eleventy.

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  1. 2024 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2024 ×5
  2. Glitch Jams Live 🍓🎏 Ep. 16: Eleventy'ing Speaking
  3. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eight-million/Eight Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  4. Lessons learned moving Eleventy from CommonJS to ESM Speaking📢 34
  5. The Good, The Bad, The Web Components #3📢 72
  6. Exploring the Bounds of Jamstack on What the Jam Speaking29 min Video📢 1
  7. 2023 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2023 ×17
  8. Building a multi-language Taylor Swift fan site (10 Minute Version) (Zach's Version) Speaking10 min Video📢 32
  9. Netlify’s Disingenuous Survey-based Attack on Next.js (and Eleventy, too) #4📢 108
  10. Eleventy v3 with ESM support now on the canary channel
  11. Live Editing an Eleventy Project in CloudCannon with Bookshop Speaking9 min Video
  12. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/static-feedback/Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy Speaking37 min Video
  13. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/mascot-david/A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! 📢 1
  14. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/seven-million/Seven Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  15. Educational, Sensational, Inspirational, Foundational Web Development Reading List Project📢 2
  16. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/cloudcannon/Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends 📢 5
  17. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/six-million/Six Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  18. The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project #20📢 295
  19. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/single-page-applications/Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA) #8📢 151
  20. The Eleventy v2.0 Release, a talk at the Eleventy Meetup Speaking📢 31
  21. IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/266JS Party Episode #266: Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉 Speaking📢 1
  22. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/five-million/Five Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  23. GitHub’s Open Source Friday: WebC, The Web Components Framework Speaking📢 1
  24. The Magical Eleventy v2.0 Beta Release 📢 41
  25. 2022 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2022 ×18
  26. IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/543/Shop Talk Show #593: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land Speaking59 min Audio📢 67
  27. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jamstack-survey-2022/Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Results 📢 1
  28. The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes Speaking2 min Video📢 2
  29. A simple plea for Eleventy folks to take the 2022 State of JavaScript Survey 📢 1
  30. OSS is Out to End the Framework Wars—Jamstack Conf 2022 Speaking📢 107
  31. FITC Panel: Front-End Framework Trends with the creators of Qwik, Astro, and Eleventy Speaking
  32. Kelvin Omereshone’s TKYT: Eleventy and WebC Speaking
  33. Nick Taylor’s livecoding.ca: WebC is neat! Speaking📢 1
  34. Adding Components to Eleventy with WebC ProjectSpeaking📢 120
  35. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/four-million/Four Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  36. Ryan Carniato: Exploring 11ty with Zach Leatherman Speaking📢 2
  37. IndieWeb Avatar for https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eleventy-with-zach-leatherman/id1539945251?i=1000564676022PodRocket podcast: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman Speaking
  38. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/three-million/Three Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  39. Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. Edge Speaking21 min Video📢 80
  40. Coding Design Systems episode 11: Design Systems with 11ty Speaking
  41. IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/217JS Party Episode #217: Going full-time on Eleventy Speaking
  42. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-oss/Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify Speaking2 min Video📢 2
  43. IndieWeb Avatar for https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v1.0.0Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release. 📢 7
  44. 2021 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2021 ×30
  45. IndieWeb Avatar for https://api-explorer.11ty.dev/The Eleventy API Explorer Project📢 28
  46. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/render/Mix and Match Template Syntax in Eleventy using the Render Plugin Project
  47. How to add Authentication to your Eleventy Site ProjectSpeaking7 min Video📢 52
  48. Recycling Open Graph Images for display on my Web Site Project📢 37
  49. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/new-mascot-from-geri-coady/A New Eleventy Mascot from Geri Coady
  50. The State of Eleventy (2021) in Two Minutes Speaking2 min Video📢 3
  51. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/281278073/The 11ties: 11 Minute Talks about 11ty on 11/11
  52. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jammies-2021/Shout out to Jamstack Conf 2021 Jammies Award Winners
  53. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-v1-beta/The Very First Eleventy 1.0 Beta Release 📢 3
  54. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jamstack-survey-2021/Jamstack Community Survey 2021 Results
  55. IndieWeb Avatar, yet another Eleventy Image Service API Project📢 63
  56. Every Fire Needs a Sparkline Project📢 22
  57. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/2million/Two Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  58. Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code Project📢 86
  59. Uniclode: yet another demo of Eleventy Serverless Web FontsProject📢 22
  60. Eleventy Serverless, a talk video from EleventyMeetup’s AvatarThe Eleventy Meetup Speaking43 min Video
  61. Rainglow: a demo of Eleventy Serverless Project📢 34
  62. Inaugural EleventyMeetup’s AvatarEleventy Meetup: Hello World (a talk about Eleventy Serverless) Speakingon July 15
  63. Some Antics with BenDMyers’s AvatarBen Myers: A First Look at Eleventy Serverless! Speaking73 min Video📢 27
  64. Eleventy Serverless (Eleventy Cloud) Thus Far 📢 95
  65. Defer generating 400+ pages using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders Speaking8 min Video📢 15
  66. How and Why I Removed 3000 Images from the Eleventy Docs Build Speaking4 min Video📢 1
  67. Powering Netlify’s Community Events with Structured Content (and a preview of Eleventy Cloud) Speaking23 min Video📢 9
  68. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.sanity.io/content-is-data-open-house-2021Content is Data—Sanity Open House Speakingon March 25
  69. Image Ready v2—Developer Experience @ Eleventy Speaking22 min Video📢 45
  70. Queue Code—“Live” Code without Errors Project📢 55
  71. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/espbn/Join the Eleventy Super Professional Business Network
  72. Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy, presented by agilitycms’s AvatarAgility CMS Speaking73 min Video
  73. Don’t Shut Down Your Business! Instead Use Eleventy Image Project📢 164
  74. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/275601729/Images at JAMstackTORONTO’s AvatarJamstack Toronto Speakingon January 20
  75. 2020 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2020 ×6
  76. The State of Eleventy (2020) in Two Minutes Speaking2 min Video
  77. Eleventy Leaderboards v2 via speedlify’s AvatarSpeedlify Project📢 63
  78. Eleventy’s New Performance Leaderboard 📢 54
  79. Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha Speaking
  80. Let’s Learn Eleventy! on LWJShow’s AvatarLearn with Jason Speakingon Jan 792 min Video
  81. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdybccbkb/Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon Jan 7
  82. 2019 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2019 ×9
  83. Building Exclusive Features For Open Collective Contributors on Netlify Project📢 22
  84. IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/390/Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman Speaking62 min Audio
  85. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/news/moving-house/Eleventy Documentation has moved to 11ty.dev
  86. A Featherweight Facepile Project📢 35
  87. IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/79Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party Episode #79 Web FontsSpeaking67 min Audio
  88. Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans 📢 228
  89. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/netlify-ifttt/Eleventy Quick Tip №8: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT
  90. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/eliminate-js/Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time
  91. IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/build-a-blog/Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy
  92. 2018 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2018 ×7
  93. Happy Birthday Eleventy! 🎉 📢 13
  94. The Simplest Web Site That Could Possibly Work Well
  95. Import your Disqus Comments to Eleventy 📢 5
  96. Google Open Source Award for Eleventy
  97. Introducing Eleventy, a new Static Site Generator Project
  98. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 2—Adding Filters 📢 1
  99. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 1 📢 1