Awesome list
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Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome #
2026-04-29Build Awesome Pro Kickstarter AMA@YouTube2026-04-28New ongoing Kickstarter campaign 🎈2026-03-23The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome@11ty.dev2026-03-20Eleventy v4.0.0-alpha.7 released with a note:"this may be one of the last canary releases before you see some names start to change to Build Awesome"
2026-03-13AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall with Zach Leatherman@YouTube2026-03-03..06Original Kickstarter campaign and why it was canceled@FA2026-03-03Official announcement@11ty.dev
See also:
- Static Site Generator Trends 2026-2040
@blades.ninja - Eleventy icon in Font Awesome 😎
Starters #
Modern v4 starters:
2026Build Awesome Starter — Modern, lightweight Eleventy v4 starter with Tailwind/Pico, Blades, CMS and multisiting.2026Subtle — Probably the most.subtleblog starter template, yet customizable thanks to 11ty plugin, Pico and other Blades.
v3 starters:
2026Base Blog — A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator.2026Excellent — Eleventy starter with CUBE CSS, Every Layout and global design tokens. A workflow for modern & resilient websites, based on the CUBE CSS boilerplate.2026ZeroPoint — A modern, opinionated, bare-bones website starter that gets you "up to zero" on a project quickly and easily.2026elva — A multilingual, clean, green 11ty starter theme.
Minimally maintained:
2025Netlify Boilerplate — A boilerplate for building a simple website with the Eleventy static site generator.
More starters:
- Curated list of ~40 starters
@11tybundle.dev - Curated list of ~10 minimal starters
@blades.ninja - Curated list of ~5 CMS starters
@sveltiacms.app - A larger list of 150+ community starters
@11ty.dev
Plugins #
2026Table of Contents — Simple and configurable table of contents generation for Eleventy.2026RSS — A pack of Eleventy plugins for generating an RSS feed.2026Fetch — Utility to cache any remote asset: Image, Video, Web Font, CSS, JSON, etc.2026Blades — Ultimate blade kit for 11ty (Build Awesome).2025Navigation — A plugin for creating hierarchical navigation in Eleventy projects. Supports breadcrumbs too!- Community plugins ↗
- Even more plugins ↗
Tutorials #
General guides:
2026Learn Eleventy — This course is designed to give you a really solid understanding of Eleventy—even if you’ve never used it before.202211ty Second 11ty by Bryan Robinson on Youtube2019Eleventy (11ty) Tutorials by Bryan Robinson on Youtube
Images:
2026Optimizing Images with Eleventy on Netlify@kittygiraudel.com
Templating:
2026Blades HTML — Generic Nunjucks/Liquid templates for 11ty/Build Awesome, Jekyll, Shopify, etc.- More templating tricks ↗
Migration:
2018Turn Jekyll up to Eleventy — An excellent article explaining the differences and similarities between Jekyll and 11ty.
Webmentions:
GraphQL: