Eleventy Notes

• Use a lowercase index.njk file as start page, don’t use Index.njk.
• Layouts go in the _includes folder; Eleventy looks for them from inside there.
• By default, Eleventy sorts collections by their creation date.
• Make use of the “data cascade” (for example, for posts, put all the common front matter’s data in their common layout’s front matter).
• I use custom fields for “created” and “updated” in front matter because I don’t want to be tied to other things, such as with git Last Modified and git Created that impliesn the use of Git.
• To clone a project from GitHub: git clone, then npm install.

← Return to blog