Eleventy Baseline

An experimental Swiss army knife for Eleventy.

Eleventy Baseline is a lightweight toolkit that collects small but useful patterns for everyday Eleventy development. It explores what a minimal, optional “core” for Eleventy could look like without becoming a framework or theme.

This is a practical, evolving baseline.
Things might shift, break, or get renamed as the project evolves.

Current Features

• Debugging helpers (filter, Nunjucks globals)
• Markdown parsing filter
• Related-posts filter
• CSS processing with PostCSS + minification
• Filter to inline processed CSS directly into templates
• JS bundling with esbuild
• Filter to inline bundled JS where needed
• Image handling via eleventy-img with a custom shortcode
• Head/meta injection via PostHTML with <baseline-head> (defaults for meta/assets/basic SEO)

Planned / Exploratory Features

• Directory-based multilingual support
• Expanded head/SEO helpers (canonical image defaults, JSON-LD presets)
• SEO helpers (JSON-LD, canonical URLs, sitemaps)

The long-term goal is to offer just enough structure and tooling to start a new Eleventy site quickly, while respecting Eleventy’s deliberately unopinionated nature.

Usage

There’s no npm package yet. To try it locally:

git clone https://github.com/apleasantview/eleventy-baseline
cd eleventy-baseline
npm install
npm run dev

Expect sharp edges. This repo is still a sandbox.

Who Might Enjoy This

• Developers curious about Eleventy internals
• Anyone wanting a ready-to-go baseline without adopting a framework
• People who believe Eleventy could benefit from a tiny, optional “starter core” of conventions

Project Philosophy

This project asks a simple question:

What if Eleventy had a minimal, optional layer of conventions — just enough to eliminate repetition, but not enough to feel restrictive?

Eleventy Baseline explores that idea through small, practical tools rather than sweeping abstractions.

License

MIT.