Eleventy Firehose
This page shows activity from the Eleventy Blog, Quick Tips, YouTube channel, Mastodon account, and all GitHub releases (all of 11ty org repositories).
Coming soon to an alpha release near you:
Helpful errors when setting reserved Eleventy data properties in the data cascade.
One more bonus thought on Virtual Templates—they might be easier than pagination to understand (especially for more complex use cases)!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612#issuecomment-2052628014
New on the docs: Feature Testing and Version Checking in Plugins:
https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/#feature-testing
https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/#version-checking
Aleksandr Hovhannisyan has created a quick demo of a plugin using Virtual Templates to output a Netlify redirects file:
https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan/eleventy-plugin-netlify-redirects/
This is a perfect use case for Virtual Templates, using the Eleventy pipeline to output a file without requiring templates in the plugin consumer’s project.
Our very first speaker reveal for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers
Henry Desroches @henry
This is their web site (made real good): https://henry.codes/
Eleventy 3.0.0-alpha.6 is now in the wild, adding:
1️⃣ Virtual Templates: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612
2️⃣ `eleventyConfig.directories` with access to normalized project-relative directory paths https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3244
3️⃣ `config` named export from Configuration files https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3246
4️⃣ `set*Directory` config methods https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1503
5️⃣ `ELEVENTY_VERSION` environment variable
6️⃣ Bug fixes!!
📣 Arbitrary Milestone Alert 📣
We now have 1000 folks attending the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good!
If you haven’t yet, register today! https://conf.11ty.dev/#register
Coming to an alpha release (v3.0.0-alpha.6) near you:
1️⃣ `eleventyConfig.directories` contains the full normalized project-relative paths for your Eleventy project dirs (via CLI or config) https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3244
2️⃣ More robust option for `config` export from config file means folder definitions are consistent throughout configuration execution. https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3246
3️⃣ Configuration API methods (e.g. `eleventyConfig.setInputDirectory()`) to set your project dirs https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1503
If you submitted a talk to 11ty Conference, please check your email—we have finished sending out all of the emails.
The selection process was _extremely_ difficult and I am really sorry to those that were not selected for this year’s event. Please know that It is not a reflection on you or your talk idea!
Please email or DM if you have any questions or concerns.
you know what’s better than 4 hundos? 10 hundos
we’re currently at 998 folks registered for https://conf.11ty.dev/ 👀
And we have a winner!
This reply from @martynhoyer was randomly selected from replies across Mastodon, X, and LinkedIn: https://indieweb.social/@martynhoyer/112215079476570513
Congratulations!
And check out the site they linked: https://chriskirknielsen.com/ (from @chriskirknielsen)
Martyn, please DM with your email address and we’ll get the ball rolling!
🚨🚨🚨 Today (April 5) is the last day to get an 11ty Merch Bundle.
In the seven years our project has existed, this is the only time we’ve offered merch—and we’re very unlikely to re-open the store any time soon 😅
If you’re interested—order now!
https://merch.11ty.dev/products/11ty-merch-bundle-2024-limited-edition
Appreciate everyone’s patience—we will send out our #11tyConf speaker notifications tomorrow April 4th.
Stay tuned!
It’s time for another #11tyConf 🛍️ Merch Bundle Giveaway:
Reply to this post with your favorite #BuiltWithEleventy web site and you will be eligible to receive a free 11ty Merch Bundle (shipping/handling/taxes included): https://merch.11ty.dev/products/11ty-merch-bundle-2024-limited-edition
(Bundles are available for purchase for two more days—April 5th is the cutoff!)
The best day to sign up for the 11ty Conference was yesterday—today is a close second: https://conf.11ty.dev/#register
April 5th is the **last** day to buy 11ty Merch bundles before the shop closes and we send the orders to the printer https://merch.11ty.dev/products/11ty-merch-bundle-2024-limited-edition
We are buying the exact quantity that y’all order—there will be no extra or leftover inventory. Get your order in now!
Coming soon to an Eleventy v3.0 Canary near you: Virtual Templates
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612
Define “virtual input files” that don’t exist on the file system. Process them with Eleventy. Profit?
This is useful for writing automated tests and maybe serverless—but also unlocks creating templates in plugins (think sitemap.xml or an RSS feed!)
Today is a great day to register for the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good:
We’ll do some more giveaways soon—stay tuned! Thanks y’all!
Our winner for this giveaway is Laker Turner @la!
Congratulations—we will DM you a coupon code shortly!