Eleventy Firehose
This page shows activity from the Eleventy Blog, Quick Tips, YouTube channel, Mastodon account, and all GitHub releases (all of 11ty org repositories).
📢 @PhineasX is the wonderful artist responsible for the second Eleventy possum mascot: https://www.11ty.dev/blog/logo-homage/
If you’re able, have a look at their other work and pick something up (they need our help): https://mastodon.art/@PhineasX/114269437751975150
Thank you to everyone that left feedback on the PR! I made improvements from each comment and we’re shipping this one live now!
Exclusive to Mastodon friends: we’re about to ship some big changes to the sidebar navigation on the 11ty docs.
If you want a sneak peek (and/or want to leave some opinions) please head over to the pull request: https://github.com/11ty/11ty-website/pull/1782
We made a small modification to the leaderboards this time: for scaling and maintenance reasons (this list now includes over 1100 web sites!) the results will only show sites that have scored 400 on Lighthouse. Thanks y’all!
Eleventy Leaderboards №29
https://11ty.dev/speedlify/
🥇 https://a11yproject.com ⏫685
🥈 https://lamplightdev.com 🔼1 (@lamplightdev)
🥉 https://simoncox.com 🔼8 (@simoncox)
#4 https://zachleat.com 🔼20
#5 https://oupspuppetry.gr ⏫74
#6 https://fumes.junglestar.org ⏫50
#7 https://artofmusic.lu/en/ 🔼12
#8 https://declanbyrd.co.uk (@declan_byrd)
#9 https://curtisjurgensen.com 🔼11
#10 https://iainbean.com
#11 https://jfroehlich.net (@jfroehlich)
we can neither confirm nor deny that the leaderboards may be actively leaderboarding
This may be the first community example of running Eleventy v3 on-request in a serverless function: https://mastodon.nz/@mez/114192839869409596 (notably we removed the official serverless plugin in v3)
Nice work @mez!
New release: Eleventy Navigation v1.0.0 (after 2+ years dormant!)
Access the data cascade, pin items in a group, improvements to default sorting, support for aria-current, and more!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-navigation/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Thinking about an official multi-template-syntax Table of Contents plugin: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3712
If you have opinions (or have a particular plugin you like), please weigh in!
New v3.0.1-alpha.5 🐀 core pre-release available for testing: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.1-alpha.5 includes build and install performance wins, a reduction of node_modules from 27MB to 21MB, a bunch of Dev Server fixes and more!
New release: Eleventy 🛎️ Dev Server v2.0.7 includes bug fixes for CSS reloads, supports returning a `Response` in your onRequest callbacks (easily proxy to a different server using `fetch()`), and a bunch of other goodies!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-dev-server/releases/tag/v2.0.7
The GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide is #BuiltWithEleventy: https://design-guide.publishing.service.gov.uk/
via https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/25/creating-the-gov-uk-publishing-design-guide/
Please send along your best wishes to @bobmonsour on a speedy recovery after knee surgery!
Coming soon to a Eleventy v3 alpha near you: dependency housekeeping improvements have yielded a drop in our dependency count from 190 to 151 and a reduction in our core node_modules weight from 27.4 MB to 21.8 MB.
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3622#issuecomment-2698855720
New on the docs: Use Node’s CPU Profiling feature to dig deep into your build performance and improve your build times: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/debug-performance/#node-js-profiling
New image optimization recipe to save on build minutes.
Store your optimized output images in .cache for disk cache re-use (note: preserving .cache across builds is a host-dependent feature)