April 24, 2024

11ty Bundle Issue 40

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More cowbell! I mean more canary! Eleventy 3.0.0-alpha.7 is out today. It includes "the eleventyDataSchema property (function callback, async-friendly) in the data cascade" as Zach notes in this GitHub issue comment.

J.R.R. Tolkien's 'eleventy' You may be familiar with the story behind the name Eleventy. Zach recounts it here in this short clip from a recent conversation with Jenn Schiffer at Glitch. But did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien probably knew that "eleventy" was an Old English word? That's according to this reddit post. And this Guardian piece to celebrate the author's 111th birthday.

Transforms in the docs Transforms can modify a template's output. For example, you can "use a transform to format/prettify an HTML file with proper whitespace." Check out the Transforms docs.

Dev server 2.0.0 The latest version of the Dev Server bumps the node version requirement from 14 to 18+ (a breaking change), along with bug fixes and some minor improvements. Check out the release notes, and in the docs.

eleventy-img plugin v5.0.0-beta.1 The excellent eleventy-img plugin has a new beta release. But I have no idea what's new in it as the tagged release page has no notes.

Validate your data Coming soon to Eleventy 3.0.0-alpha.7 is "the eleventyDataSchema property (function callback, async-friendly) in the data cascade" as Zach notes in this GitHub issue comment.

Embed everything Here's "a collection of Eleventy plugins that allow you to easily embed common media formats in your Markdown using only their URLs."

Two new starters These came across my radar this week and they appear to be well-documented. If you're looking to get started with Eleventy, these might be worth a look. See them on GitHub at eleventy-duo by Yinka Adedire and eleventy-alembic-starter by Rob Anderson. Their respective demo pages are here and here.

11ty conference speakers...so far Zach has started dripping out the list of speakers for the upcoming 11ty conference (register here).

Until next time...

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Published on April 23, 2024, midnight by Bob Monsour.

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