Allow multiple input targets (comma separated globs, array of inputs) (👍44)

[ghost]

It would be nice to have a feature to pass multiple elements (directories, files, globs) to the dir.input option, such as:

// .eleventy.js
module.exports = function eleventyConfiguration(config) {
    return {
        dir: {
            input: ['src/*.md', 'anotherSrc/*.njk'],
            output: 'dist',
        },
        ...
    };
};

because something like this doesn't work:

// .eleventy.js
module.exports = function eleventyConfiguration(config) {
    return {
        dir: {
            input: '{src/*.md,anotherSrc/*.njk}',
            output: 'dist',
        },
        ...
    };
};

[AlexNodex]

Throwing another possible option to the mix, this would allow for good flexibility.

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
  return {
    dir: {
      input: function() {
        const directories = aFunctionToReturnInputPathsBasedOnAConfigFile();
        return directories;
      },
      output: "public"
    }
  };
};

In my opinion one of: arrays, globs, a function and a string would be the best approach for the most flexible input

[edwardhorsford]

I've just come here looking for similar. I was looking to explore splitting my current views folder in to separate pages and posts folders.

[Meeshalk]

I wanted to have pages folder with multiple .html pages. Seems like its not possible ay the moment.

[noveogroup-amorgunov]

Hey! I would like to use same feature to split blog posts and 11ty app to diff monorepo packages like:

root
  packages
    app // 11ty app
    content
      posts
        2025-05-20-test.md
        2025-05-21-test-2.md

UPDATE NOTES:

if someone faces the same problem, I solved it through coping posts from content package to app with npm-watch:

// package.json

  "watch": {
    "copy:posts": {
      "patterns": ["../content/posts"],
      "extensions": "md"
    }
  },
  "scripts": {
    "prestart": "pnpm run \"/^copy:.*/\"",
    "prebuild": "pnpm run \"/^copy:.*/\"",
    "copy:posts": "cp -r ../content/posts/*.md src/posts",
    "start": "pnpm run \"/^start:.*/\"",
    "start:content": "pnpm watch",
    "start:11ty": "eleventy --input=src --config=configs/11ty/11ty.config.js --serve --quiet",
    "watch": "npm-watch"
  },
 // ...

See example in my blog: https://github.com/noveogroup-amorgunov/amorgunov.com/blob/master/packages/app/package.json#L15

[zachleat]

Moderately related to #4021 #3340