Eleventy Not So Minimal Blog Starter

A not so minimal starter for building a website + blog using the Eleventy static site generator.

This eleventy starter already includes:

• Basic site navigation with eleventy-navigation
• Blog categories & category based navigation
• Image optimisation with Eleventy-img
• SVG icons with svg-icon-sprite
• SEO (sitemap, metadata)
• Luxon for handling dates & times
• A few basic Eleventy configurations, filters and shortcodes
• Nunjucks templates
• Sass & the necessary scripts to compile Sass

If the listed setup is not what you require, you might want to check out one of the many other Eleveny starters, which can be found here.

Getting Started

1. Clone this Repository

git clone https://github.com/mangamaui/eleventy-not-so-minimal-blog-starter.git your-blog-name

2. Navigate to the directory

cd your-blog-name

3. Install dependencies

npm install

4. Edit _data/metadata.json

5. Run Eleventy

npx eleventy

Or build and host locally for local development

npx eleventy --serve

Or build automatically when a template changes:

npx eleventy --watch

Or in debug mode:

DEBUG=* npx eleventy