11ty/eleventy-base-blog resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A starter repository (boilerplate) for building a blog with the Eleventy static site generator, preconfigured with layouts, navigation, image optimization, and syntax highlighting. It produces fully pre-rendered, zero-JavaScript static sites with strong Lighthouse performance out of the box.

Use cases

• start a personal blog with eleventy
• create a static blog site with no javascript
• boilerplate for an 11ty blog
• fast static site with optimized images
• starter template for a markdown blog
• deploy a blog to a subfolder

When to choose

• you want to launch a blog quickly on Eleventy with best practices preconfigured
• you need a zero-JavaScript, performance-focused static site
• you want built-in image optimization, syntax highlighting, and draft support

When to avoid

• you need a dynamic, server-rendered application with user accounts
• you don't want to use Eleventy or the Node.js ecosystem
• you need a CMS-backed multi-author publishing platform out of the box

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

static-site-generator templating image-processing developer-tools web-development frontend documentation cms cross-platform eleventy starter-template blog static-site zero-javascript nunjucks markdown boilerplate nodejs web-server

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