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Why Are There So Many Static Site Generators

Blog posts and tutorials for the Build Awesome (née Eleventy/11ty) website generator. You can read more at the Eleventy Blog. This very website you’re reading now is generated using Build Awesome.

  1. 2026 ×6 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2026
  2. Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome-pro/
  3. Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/collaborative-editing/
  4. AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall at the 11ty Meetup IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 44 min
  5. Eleventy is now Build Awesome IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome/
  6. How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/18615318-how-eleventy-survived-funding-growth-and-open-source-reality 29 min
  7. Eleventy, 2025 in Review IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/review-2025/
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  9. No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows #103k 33
  10. How we use GitHub Issues (on 11ty) and how that’s Changing IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/github-issues/
  11. Copy *and* Paste? …in this Economy? 5
  12. Permanent Facepile Credit to Individuals Supporting Eleventy 47
  13. Wrapper Elements around Code Blocks in Markdown 12
  14. How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/17268471-how-we-built-web-awesome-with-11ty-and-why-it-s-so-fast 35 min
  15. A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy 1k 29
  16. One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60% 17
  17. Never write your own Date Parsing Library #215k 2851
  18. Check the speedometer on the brand new Blog Awesome (now with 11ty) IndieWeb Avatar for https://blog.fontawesome.com/blog-awesome-to-11ty/
  19. Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy (at Eleventy Meetup)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 27 min 5
  20. Eleventy, 2024 in Review IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/review-2024/
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  22. Nerd Show and Tell on Podcast Awesome IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/16065652-nerd-show-and-tell-meet-zach-leatherman 30 min
  23. The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/ 6
  24. Speaking at: Web Unleashed (2024) IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/presentation/the-best-and-worst-parts-of-eleventy-now-in-v3/ 1
  25. Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available! IndieWeb Avatar for https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0
  26. Open Source Needs to be Financially Symbiotic 2k 2125
  27. 11ty is Joining Font Awesome IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-font-awesome/ 1
  28. The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless 5k 2033
  29. Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 is now available! IndieWeb Avatar for https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1
  30. Improved error messaging for require(ESM) in Node.js 3
  31. 11ty Goes Fully Independent—JS Party #325 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/325 75 min 10
  32. I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024 #206k 178
  33. The Future of 11ty (2024)Talk 31 min 10
  34. An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference 15
  35. 11ty Conference is this week! IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/11ty-conf-final-week/
  36. Glitch Jams Live 🍓🎏 Ep. 16: Eleventy'ing IndieWeb Avatar for https://glitch.com/ 75 min 1
  37. Get your 11ty Conference 2024 Merch Bundle (Limited Edition) IndieWeb Avatar for https://merch.11ty.dev/products/11ty-merch-bundle-2024-limited-edition
  38. Eight Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  39. Lessons learned moving Eleventy from CommonJS to ESMTalk 45 min1k 13
  40. The Good, The Bad, The Web Components #168k 22
  41. Exploring the Bounds of Jamstack on What the Jam 29 min 1
  42. 2023 ×17 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2023
  43. Building a multi-language Taylor Swift fan site (10 Minute Version) (Zach's Version) 10 min 7
  44. Netlify’s Disingenuous Survey-based Attack on Next.js (and Eleventy, too) 5k 40
  45. Eleventy v3 with ESM support now on the canary channel
  46. Live Editing an Eleventy Project in CloudCannon with Bookshop IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/ 9 min
  47. Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/static-feedback/ 37 min
  48. A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/mascot-david/ 1
  49. Seven Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  50. Educational, Sensational, Inspirational, Foundational Web Development Reading List IndieWeb Avatar for https://esif.dev/ 15 min 2
  51. Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/ 2 min 6
  52. Six Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  53. The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project 4k 105
  54. Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/single-page-applications/#1510k 57
  55. The Eleventy v2.0 Release, a talk at the Eleventy MeetupTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-12-configs-and-v2/ 21 min 9
  56. Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉—JS Party #266 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/266
  57. Five Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  58. GitHub’s Open Source Friday: WebC, The Web Components Framework 49 min 1
  59. The Magical Eleventy v2.0 Beta Release 14
  60. 2022 ×18 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2022
  61. Shop Talk Show #593: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/543/ 59 min 20
  62. Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Results IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jamstack-survey-2022/ 1
  63. The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes 2 min 2
  64. A simple plea for Eleventy folks to take the 2022 State of JavaScript Survey 1
  65. OSS is Out to End the Framework Wars—Jamstack Conf 2022 35 min 20
  66. FITC Panel: Front-End Framework Trends with the creators of Qwik, Astro, and Eleventy 57 min
  67. Kelvin Omereshone’s TKYT: Eleventy and WebC 73 min
  68. Nick Taylor’s livecoding.ca: WebC is neat! 88 min
  69. Adding Components to Eleventy with WebC IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-11-webc-with-zach/3k 23
  70. Four Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  71. Ryan Carniato: Exploring 11ty with Zach Leatherman 150 min 2
  72. PodRocket podcast: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eleventy-with-zach-leatherman/id1539945251?i=1000564676022 27 min
  73. Three Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  74. Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. EdgeTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-8-state-of-the-possumverse-and-panel-on-transitioning-to-11ty/ 21 min2k 7
  75. Coding Design Systems episode 11: Design Systems with 11ty 53 min
  76. Going full-time on Eleventy—JS Party #217 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/217 58 min
  77. Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-oss/ 2 min 3
  78. Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release. IndieWeb Avatar for https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v1.0.0 6
  79. 2021 ×30 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2021
  80. The Eleventy API Explorer IndieWeb Avatar for https://api-explorer.11ty.dev/ 3
  81. Mix and Match Template Syntax in Eleventy using the Render Plugin IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/render/
  82. How to add Authentication to your Eleventy Site 7 min2k 7
  83. Recycling Open Graph Images for display on my Web Site 2k 56
  84. A New Eleventy Mascot from Geri Coady IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/new-mascot-from-geri-coady/
  85. The State of Eleventy (2021) in Two Minutes 2 min 3
  86. The 11ties: 11 Minute Talks about 11ty on 11/11 IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/281278073/
  87. Shout out to Jamstack Conf 2021 Jammies Award Winners IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jammies-2021/
  88. The Very First Eleventy 1.0 Beta Release IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-v1-beta/ 3
  89. Jamstack Community Survey 2021 Results IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/jamstack-survey-2021/
  90. IndieWeb Avatar, yet another Eleventy Image Service API 3k 14
  91. Every Fire Needs a Sparkline 2k 1
  92. Two Million npm Downloads for Eleventy
  93. Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code 5k 11
  94. Uniclode: yet another demo of Eleventy Serverless 5
  95. Eleventy Serverless, a talk video from EleventyMeetup’s AvatarThe Eleventy MeetupTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 43 min
  96. Rainglow: a demo of Eleventy Serverless 5
  97. Speaking at: Inaugural EleventyMeetup’s AvatarEleventy Meetup: Hello World (a talk about Eleventy Serverless) IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/hello-world/
  98. Some Antics with BenDMyers’s AvatarBen Myers: A First Look at Eleventy Serverless! 73 min 4
  99. Eleventy Serverless (Eleventy Cloud) Thus Far 2k 15
  100. Defer generating 400+ pages using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders 8 min 8
  101. How and Why I Removed 3000 Images from the Eleventy Docs Build 4 min
  102. Powering Netlify’s Community Events with Structured Content (and a preview of Eleventy Cloud) 23 min 2
  103. Content is Data—Sanity Open House IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.sanity.io/content-is-data-open-house-2021
  104. Image Ready v2—Developer Experience @ EleventyTalk 22 min 25
  105. Queue Code—“Live” Code without Errors 13
  106. Join the Eleventy Super Professional Business Network IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/espbn/
  107. Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy, presented by agilitycms’s AvatarAgility CMS 73 min
  108. Don’t Shut Down Your Business! Instead Use Eleventy Image 8k 22
  109. Speaking at: JAMstackTORONTO’s AvatarJamstack Toronto IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/275601729/
  110. 2020 ×6 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2020
  111. The State of Eleventy (2020) in Two Minutes 2 min
  112. Eleventy Leaderboards v2 via speedlify’s AvatarSpeedlify 1k 15
  113. Eleventy’s New Performance Leaderboard 2k 16
  114. Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS OmahaTalk 63 min
  115. Let’s Learn Eleventy! on LWJShow’s AvatarLearn with Jason 92 min
  116. Speaking at: Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdybccbkb/
  117. 2019 ×9 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2019
  118. Building Exclusive Features For Open Collective Contributors on Netlify IndieWeb Avatar for https://netlify.com/ 7
  119. Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/390/ 62 min
  120. Eleventy Documentation has moved to 11ty.dev IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/moving-house/
  121. A Featherweight Facepile 1k 10
  122. Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party #79 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/79 67 min
  123. Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans 4k 66
  124. Eleventy Quick Tip №8: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/netlify-ifttt/
  125. Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/eliminate-js/
  126. Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/build-a-blog/
  127. 2018 ×7 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2018
  128. Happy Birthday Eleventy! 🎉 1k5
  129. The Simplest Web Site That Could Possibly Work Well 4k
  130. Import your Disqus Comments to Eleventy 2
  131. Google Open Source Award for Eleventy IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.google.com/
  132. Introducing Eleventy, a new Static Site Generator 15k 3
  133. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 2—Adding Filters 18k 1
  134. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 1 44k 1