Blog starter

View the live demo here, hosted on Netlify

Aims

A blog that still runs without javascript. Hence, no bundlers.

Features

• Static Site Gen - Eleventy

• Tailwind CSS v2.0 / Tailwind Typography / Dark Mode

• Create excerpts using the <!-- excerpt -->

• Custom ReadTime filter

• 404 page

• Tags page to view posts related to tag

  • Use of a tagList collection defined in .eleventy.js
  • /tags - show all available tags (excluding all and posts) as buttons (tags.md)
  • /tags/tag-name - shows all posts related to that tag (tagList.md)

• Sitemap and Robots.txt

  • Change site url in _data/site.json

• Shortcode to handle images

  • Add image under src/assets/img/posts and use the asset_img short code
  • {% post_img 'filename' 'alt_text' %} eg. {% post_img 'mailbox.jpg' 'mailbox' %}

• Draft posts using the published frontmatter

• Posts pagination in index.html
  • change the size frontmatter variable

• ESLint

• Bash script to create new post (based on YYYY and MM)

$ ./create new blog post
Created new post at src/posts/2021/01/new-blog-post.md

Running locally

Create your blogpost under src/posts. I like to have mine sorted by YY/MM.

Navigate to localhost:8080 after starting the server.

npm install
npm run dev

# or

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Deployment

GitHub Pages

Just commit and push to master branch, a GitHub Action will start and deploy.

Netlify / Surge / Firebase hosting / etc hosting providers

Build Command: npm run build or pnpm dev

Output folder: _site