What does ElevenTail give me?
ElevenTail is the starting point that I use when building a site where I want to have:
- Eleventy for site generation configured with some common conventions like blog collection
- Tailwind CSS for a utility-based CSS pipeline
- Purge CSS for stripping unused CSS and minifying the result
- Uglify JS for basic JavaScript build pipeline
- Serverless functions development pipeline via Netlify Functions
- Local support of Netlify CDN abilities such as redirects and custom headers
ElevenTail is not a product, it's just something I maintain to use for myself. If you think it might be useful to you too, then great! Suggestions and contributions as pull requests are also welcome.
How do I use it?
To get started using ElevenTail for a site of your own:
- Initiate a new project from this GitHub Template
- Clone a copy to your local machine:
git clone YOUR_REPO_URL - Install the dependencies:
npm install - Run the local build environment:
netlify dev
This will give you a local build and a local server which detects changes to give live rebuilds and reloads.
If you are planning to deploy your site to Netlify, you will also automatically get local support for the Netlify redirects API by running your local build with the command netlify dev.
Super speedy start
To create and deploy a new site from this template, and then start customising, you can click the button below which will:
- Clone this repo to a new repo in your own GitHub account
- Create a new Netlify site linked to your new repo
- Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your new site
This is the process I use to get a new site with all of its deployment and hosting set up as quickly as possible.
What the possum?
The possum became a playful mascot for Eleventy thanks to the wonderful James Williamson. He and Zach Leatherman, Eleventy's creator, shared a playful sense of humor which culminated in this marvelously silly icon. Following the sad loss of James, Zach commissioned a more formal possum illustration who's reminiscence of an O'Reilly book cover illustration inspired the design of this little site.
