Eleventy Starter Boilerplate

Overview:

Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is a production-ready theme designed for quickly starting a blog. It is built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS, and optional Netlify CMS. This theme provides a minimalist blog template and includes features such as SEO metadata, lazy loading of images, syntax highlighting, linter, code formatter, live reload, module bundler, 404 page, pagination, cache busting, and more. It is designed to be customizable and SEO-friendly, and requires Node.js and npm to run.

Features:

• Production-ready static site generation using Eleventy
• Integration with Tailwind CSS, with PurgeCSS to remove unused CSS
• PostCSS for processing Tailwind CSS
• Lazy loading of images with lazysizes
• Image compression with Imagemin
• Syntax highlighting with Prism.js
• HTML & CSS minification using HTMLMinifier and cssnano
• Linter with ESLint
• Code formatting with Prettier
• Live reload for development
• Module bundler with Webpack
• Templating with EJS
• SEO metadata and Open Graph tags
• JSON-LD for richer indexing
• Sitemap.xml generation
• Customizable 404 page
• Pagination support
• Cache busting for optimized performance
• Maximized lighthouse score for improved website performance
• Includes a free minimalist blog theme
• Optional integration with Netlify CMS

Installation:

To get started, follow these steps:

1. Clone the project repository to your local environment.
2. Customize the theme according to your needs by updating the following files:
   • public/assets/images/logo.png: Update your blog’s logo.
   • public/apple-touch-icon.png, public/favicon.ico, public/favicon-16x16.png, public/favicon-32x32.png: Update your blog’s favicon. You can generate a favicon using tools like favicon.io.
   • _data/site.json: Update your blog’s configurations.
   • src/_includes/layouts: Customize your blog’s HTML layout.
   • src/assets/styles/main.css: Customize your blog’s CSS styles using Tailwind CSS.

To deploy the theme in production mode:

1. Review and test the generated HTML and CSS files in production mode.
2. Optimize the production build by running the command to create optimized files.
3. Deploy the generated files located in the _site folder to your preferred hosting service.

To deploy the theme with Netlify:

1. Clone the repository and deploy it on your GitHub account.
2. Use the Netlify Deploy button to easily deploy the theme on Netlify.
3. If you don’t use Netlify, you can remove all Netlify-related files, including public/admin, the loaded script netlify-identity-widget.js, and the inline script for Netlify Identity in src/_includes/layouts/base.ejs. Also, remove the netlify.toml file.

Summary:

The Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is a production-ready theme designed to quickly set up a blog. It provides a range of features such as SEO optimization, customizable layout, syntax highlighting, image optimization, and easy customization through Tailwind CSS. With its integration with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, and optional Netlify CMS, this theme offers a comprehensive solution for creating a blog with minimal code. It is suitable for developers who prioritize performance, customization, and SEO-friendliness in their blogging projects.