Welcome to Pack11ty!

Pack11ty is an heavily opinionated Eleventy template project created by Nicolas Hoizey.

Feel free to use it, enhance it, and share your ideas/comments with issues, or (even better) pull requests!

If you want to try it and you're in a hurry, try one of these quick options to run Pack11ty for free:

Key features

The Pack11ty plugin (eleventy-plugin-pack11ty) provides many features out of the box, which you can enjoy on any Eleventy project:

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
- JavaScript, CSS and HTML built separately
- Dev mode with live reload
Responsive images built from simple Markdown and presets
Enhanced Markdown thanks to an extensive set of Markdown-it plugins for better contribution: footnotes, attributes, headings anchors, abbreviations, containers
A set of Eleventy filters and shortcodes are provided, including an enhanced slugify
A simple and responsible way to share YouTube videos

Additionnaly, the Pack11ty template repository (pack11ty) helps starting a new project from scratch with even more nice features:

Responsive Layout without any Media Query, thanks to CSS Flexible Box Layout (Flexbox) and layouts from Every Layout
A 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
Etc.