Overview:

Pack11ty is a heavily opinionated Eleventy starter, also known as a “template project”. It offers a wide range of features and options for installation and deployment. It includes a plugin called Pack11ty that provides various features for any Eleventy project. Additionally, there is a template repository that helps users start a new project with additional features. The full documentation for Pack11ty can be found on pack11ty.dev.

Features:

• Collections built automatically from root folders, with pagination for yearly and monthly archives
• Navigation configuration
• JavaScript and Sass/CSS assets optimized for performance
• Inline critical JavaScript and CSS
• External and asynchronous additional JavaScript and CSS with hashes for cache busting
• Separate building of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Dev mode with live reload
• Responsive images built from simple Markdown and presets
• Enhanced Markdown with an extensive set of Markdown-it plugins
• Eleventy filters and shortcodes, including an enhanced slugify
• Simple and responsible way to share YouTube videos
• Responsive layout without media queries using CSS Flexbox and layouts from Every Layout
• Default configuration for responsive images
• PWA for performance, installation, and offline support
• Service Worker with pre-caching of UI assets, auto-caching of visited pages, and offline fallback
• Manifest for PWA installation
• Indieweb support for receiving Webmentions
• Atom feed for all collections combined
• More default containers: success, warning, error
• And more

Installation:

1. Choose one of the quick options for deployment: Netlify, Vercel, or Glitch.
2. If you prefer other installation/deployment options, explore the available choices.
3. Feel free to use, enhance, and share Pack11ty.
4. Provide feedback, ideas, comments, or bug reports through issues or pull requests.
5. For more information and detailed documentation, visit pack11ty.dev.

Summary:

Pack11ty is an opinionated Eleventy starter that offers a wide range of features and options. Its plugin (eleventy-plugin-pack11ty) provides numerous out-of-the-box features for any Eleventy project, including automatic collections, optimized assets, live reload, responsive images, enhanced Markdown, and more. Additionally, the Pack11ty template repository (pack11ty) helps users start new projects with additional features like responsive layouts, PWA support, Indieweb integration, and more. Users are encouraged to explore the full documentation on pack11ty.dev and can also find other Eleventy starters available to cater to different needs.