Build Awesome (Eleventy) 🕚⚡️🎈🐀
A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Works with HTML, Markdown, JavaScript, Liquid, Nunjucks, with addons for WebC, Sass, Vue, Svelte, TypeScript, JSX, and many others!
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Installation
npm install @awesome.me/buildawesome --save-dev
# Backwards compatible here too:
npm install @11ty/eleventy --save-dev
Read our Getting Started guide.
Tests
npm test
We have a few test suites, for various reasons:
- ava JavaScript test runner (assertions docs) (primary test suite in
test/) - Node.js Test runner (secondary test suite in
test_node/) - Vitest (in Browser Mode) (browser tests in
packages/browser/test/) - Benchmark for Performance Regressions
These run in various environments:
Community Roadmap
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- Top Bugs 😱 (Add your own votes using the 👍 reaction)
Plugins
See the official docs on plugins.
Summary
Eleventy, renamed (19.9k stars, JS; repo moved 11ty/eleventy -> 11ty/buildawesome, API 301-redirects): the minimalist counter-position — no client framework, no data graph, directory of templates in any engine -> HTML. Configuration-light by design.
Learnings
- The rename is a 2026 event worth noting: Eleventy’s identity was always ‘simpler than Jekyll, simpler than everything’ — the buildawesome rename doubles down on that. Repo-rename gotcha: the capture pipeline SKIPs because the 301 lands on the new name and a note already exists.
Gotchas
- (none yet)
Hands-on
(not adopted; minimalist reference)