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Eleventy

Static site generator written in JavaScript that turns a folder of templates (Markdown, Nunjucks, Liquid, HTML, JavaScript and more) into plain HTML, with no client-side JavaScript unless you add it.

Renamed · Mar 2026: Rebranding as Build Awesome after joining Font Awesome; v4 ships as Build Awesome v4, compatible with existing Eleventy projects and build commands. The npm package is still @11ty/eleventy. Source ↗

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Where it fits

Frontend Framework · Content-firstBlogs, docs and small marketing sites built from Markdown and templates into plain HTML, with no client-side JavaScript by default.Trade-off: No built-in component islands or app routing, so interactive parts are added by hand; it is being rebranded as Build Awesome, so names in docs and packages are shifting.

How Eleventy itself is built

2 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

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Who uses it

1 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 4 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 1Declared in code 4How evidence is collected →

Open source: a project that declares Eleventy as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

What makers say

1 makers on why they use Eleventy, in their own words on Product Hunt.

A super fast way to spin up a static site and get that product page online.
BananaBinJul 2024 ↗

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises, with how Product Hunt tags its reviews.

On Product Hunt 5.0★ · 6 reviews
flexibility 3templating language support 3community support 2constant development 2easy setup 2fast performance 2static site generation 2
Read the reviews on Product Hunt ↗

Reliability and open issues

Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in 11ty/buildawesome, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

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On Product Hunt, people weigh it against: Astro, Cloudflare, GitHub Pages.

Questions makers ask about Eleventy

Is Eleventy free?

Yes — it is free, open-source software.

Is Eleventy open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with Eleventy?

It has an official CLI (@11ty/eleventy).

Who uses Eleventy?

1 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 4 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗