Eleventy Build Awesome

A curated list of awesome Eleventy^11ty (now Build Awesome)
starters, plugins, tutorials, sites and more ↗

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Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome

• Introducing: Build Awesome by Font Awesome
  • Build a Web Site in 7 Minutes with Build Awesome - YouTube Demo
  • Collaborative Editing with Build Awesome – Edit Your Web Site Live - YouTube Demo
  • Ongoing Kickstarter campaign
• Announcement by 11ty on Bluesky
• More on topic:
  • Trends: Static Site Generators 2026-2040

Starter projects

Projects that provide a quick starting point for Eleventy sites:

• Curated list of starters by 11tybundle
• Curated list of minimal starters by Anydigital
• Curated list of 11ty starters for Sveltia CMS
• A larger list of community starters

Modern v4 starters:

• [2026] Sveleven - Modern, lightweight Eleventy v4 starter with Tailwind or Pico.css, CMS and multisiting.
• [2026] Bladeswitch - Ultra-lightweight starter compatible with BOTH Jekyll⇋and⇋Eleventy at the same time.

Minimally maintained:

• [2025] Base Blog - A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator.
• [2025] Netlify Boilerplate - A boilerplate for building a simple website with the Eleventy static site generator.

Archived

• 📦 Eleventy One - A scaffold for a quick start building with the Eleventy SSG.
• 📦 Hylia - Hylia is a lightweight Eleventy starter kit with Netlify CMS pre-configured, so that you can one-click install a progressive, accessible blog in minutes.
• 📦 Deventy - A minimal 11ty starting point for building static websites with modern tools.
• 📦 Eleventy Starter Ghost - A starter template to build websites with Ghost & Eleventy.
• 📦 Eleventy Web Starter - A modern static website workflow using Eleventy, Tailwind CSS, Webpack and PostCSS.
• 📦 Eleventy Starter Boilerplate - 🚀 Eleventy Starter Boilerplate is production-ready with SEO-friendly for quickly starting a blog. ⚡️ Built with Eleventy, ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS.
• 📦 Eleventy Garden - A starter site for building a mind garden in Eleventy.

Plugins

• [2026] Bricks [Kit] - A collection of helpful utilities and filters for Eleventy (11ty).
• [2025] Fetch - Utility to cache any remote asset: Image, Video, Web Font, CSS, JSON, etc.
• [2023] Table of Contents - Simple and configurable table of contents generation for Eleventy.
• Explore more ↗

Tutorials and guides

• [2026] Learn Eleventy - This course is designed to give you a really solid understanding of Eleventy—even if you’ve never used it before.
• [2022] 11ty Second 11ty by Bryan Robinson on Youtube
• [2019] Eleventy (11ty) Tutorials by Bryan Robinson on Youtube

Templating:

• [2026] Build Awesome & Nunjucks Tricks - A curated collection of Eleventy (11ty) tricks, starters, command line tips, configuration snippets, and templating techniques.
• [2026] Liquid Tricks - A collection of useful Liquid templating tips & tricks.

Migration:

• [2018] Turn Jekyll up to Eleventy - An excellent article explaining the differences and similarities between Jekyll and 11ty.

Webmentions:

• [2019] Static Indieweb - Using Webmentions - How Max Böck added webmentions to his Eleventy site.

GraphQL:

• [2019] Consuming a headless CMS GraphQL API with Eleventy - Consuming data coming from a GraphQL API to generate static pages is as easy as using Markdown files.

Archived

• 📦 [2018] Simplifying Content Management With Eleventy.js and Netlify CMS

Sites using Build Awesome

• Benchmark web sites Built with Eleventy over time created by Zach Leatherman
• A showcase of websites built with the Eleventy static site generator by 11tybundle

Contribute

Contributions welcome and encouraged! Read the contribution guidelines first.

Credits

• Originally created by Chris C.
• Currently maintained by Anydigital

License