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Eleventy is [slowly] becoming Build Awesome

Projects that provide a quick starting point for Eleventy sites:

Modern v4 starters:

[2026] Build Awesome Starter - Modern, lightweight Eleventy v4 starter with Tailwind or Pico; Blades, CMS and multisiting.
[2026] Bladeswitch - Ultra-lightweight Blades starter compatible with BOTH Jekyll⇋and⇋11ty (Build Awesome) at the same time.

Minimally maintained:

[2025] Base Blog - A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator.
[2025] Netlify Boilerplate - A boilerplate for building a simple website with the Eleventy static site generator.

Archived

📦 Eleventy One - A scaffold for a quick start building with the Eleventy SSG.
📦 Hylia - Hylia is a lightweight Eleventy starter kit with Netlify CMS pre-configured, so that you can one-click install a progressive, accessible blog in minutes.
📦 Deventy - A minimal 11ty starting point for building static websites with modern tools.
📦 Eleventy Starter Ghost - A starter template to build websites with Ghost & Eleventy.
📦 Eleventy Web Starter - A modern static website workflow using Eleventy, Tailwind CSS, Webpack and PostCSS.
📦 Eleventy Starter Boilerplate - 🚀 Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is production-ready with SEO-friendly for quickly starting a blog. ⚡️ Built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS.
📦 Eleventy Garden - A starter site for building a mind garden in Eleventy.

[2026] Table of Contents - Simple and configurable table of contents generation for Eleventy.
[2026] Blades - A collection of helpful utilities and filters for Eleventy (11ty).
[2025] Fetch - Utility to cache any remote asset: Image, Video, Web Font, CSS, JSON, etc.
Explore more ↗

[2026] Learn Eleventy - This course is designed to give you a really solid understanding of Eleventy—even if you’ve never used it before.
[2022] 11ty Second 11ty by Bryan Robinson on Youtube
[2019] Eleventy (11ty) Tutorials by Bryan Robinson on Youtube

Templating:

[2026] Build Awesome & Nunjucks Tricks - A curated collection of Eleventy (11ty) tricks, starters, command line tips, configuration snippets, and templating techniques.
[2026] Liquid Tricks - A collection of useful Liquid templating tips & tricks.

Migration:

[2018] Turn Jekyll up to Eleventy - An excellent article explaining the differences and similarities between Jekyll and 11ty.

Webmentions:

[2019] Static Indieweb - Using Webmentions - How Max Böck added webmentions to his Eleventy site.

GraphQL:

[2019] Consuming a headless CMS GraphQL API with Eleventy - Consuming data coming from a GraphQL API to generate static pages is as easy as using Markdown files.

Archived