11ty-tools

This package provides an advanced asset pipeline for Eleventy, the simpler static site generator.

JavaScript (ECMAScript is supported) and Sass/SCSS assets will be compiled using webpack, a static module bundler for the web. This plugin also configures 11ty-image to optimize internal and external images. Furthermore, it minimizes Eleventy's HTML output using html-minifier.

Installation

The easiest way to use this plugin, is by using my preconfigured 11ty-template. If you want to install it yourself, you should do something like this:

npm install 11ty-tools --save-dev

// .eleventy.js
const tools = require("11ty-tools");

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(tools);
  //...
};

// webpack.config.js
module.exports = require("11ty-tools/lib/webpack-config");

Features

Asset processing

JavaScript/ECMAScript

Any valid JavaScript file put in src/assets/js/*.js will get processed and put in the asset manifest. Files in subdirectories will not get processed, unless they're imported by a file matching the pattern above.

Sass/SCSS

Any valid Sass or SCSS file that is imported in src/assets/style/bundle.js will get processed and put in the asset manifest.

Webfonts

Local font files that are referenced to in Sass or SCSS will get a hashed output name too. Make sure you download them into your project using google-webfonts-helper (e.g. into src/assets/fonts).

How to use assets

There are two ways to using assets.

You could get the absolute path to your asset by using the {% asset 'name' %} shortcode and feeding it with the asset name (e.g. interactive.js or mystyles.css). The relative path will be resolved from the asset manifest (living in out/_proc/manifest.json) generated by the webpack-assets-manifest plugin.

However, sometimes it is useful to inline an asset right in your HTML. You could do that by using {% inlineasset 'name' %}. The raw asset contents will be read from the file and returned by the shortcode. Make sure that you put <style> </style> or script tags around the shortcode, as it won't automatically do that for you.

Images

You can have your images processed by using the {% image 'path'[, 'alt'[, 'sizes']] %} shortcode. Parameters:

• path (required): The path to the image. Can be internal (e.g. img/cat.png) or external (e.g. https://somesite.io/image.jpeg). NOTE: internal images are automatically provided with the prefix src/site/img/. If you would like to include an image outside that folder, add a leading slash to the path. There is no global config option to disable or change the base path.
• alt (recommended): Alt text for screen readers. This will throw a console warning if not specified.
• sizes: see sizes on MDN HTML documentation.

YouTube

You can replace your unwieldy YouTube iframes with: {% yt 'oGhe8dtRIH0' %}.

Positional arguments:

1. videoId (required): the ID of your video. You can find it in the YouTube video URL after watch?v=.
2. title: title and alt for your video.
3. width: iframe width.
4. height: iframe height.
5. allow: allow attribute. Defaults to standard YouTube iframe requirements.

Contributing

Included in CONTRIBUTING.md

Any type of contribution is very welcome! Provisionally, I'm not going to put a lot of effort into contribution guidelines as this isn't a huge project.

License

Included in LICENSE.md

Copyright 2021 Romein van Buren <[e-mail]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.