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New Sponsorship Tiers for the Build Awesome Kickstarter
May 13, 2026 · original
We’ve added a bit more information about the new sponsorship tiers for the Build Awesome Kickstarter . Your company uses Eleventy currently or wants to support the Build Awesome platform moving forward. You’re interested in getting your brand icon in the Font Awesome Icon library (for everyone to use!). You want to plaster your sponsor logo across the Awesomeverse (Build Awesome, Font Awesome, and Web Awesome web sites). If any of the above things apply to you, have a look! Don’t see something that fits? Contact me directly! Full Coverage 2026 April Build Awesome Pro Kickstarter 2026 May Blog Awesome : Introducing: Build Awesome 2026 May Blog Awesome : New Sponsorship Tiers for the Build Awesome Kickstarter 2026 April Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement 2026 March Eleventy is now Build Awesome 2026 March Podcast Awesome : Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes
Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web!
Apr 28, 2026 · original
We’re trying to make it easier for anyone to build, publish, and maintain web sites and today we’ve launched a Kickstarter with that goal in mind! Where should you start? Personally, I think the poster video on the Build Awesome Pro Kickstarter pairs nicely with any kind of cheese (but I just like cheese). Prefer a lower-level developer-focused introduction? Read the blog post: Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement . Want to watch some more demos and videos? Head over to the Kickstarter! We have a few demo videos there! We are so lucky to have the opportunity to build this project and as always we are so grateful for your support! If you’re an 11ty Open Collective backer (active or otherwise), check your email for some secret tier rewards! Thank you to the 838 backers of Build Awesome Pro! You can also watch the video here: It’s the same video on the Build Awesome Pro Kickstar
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement
Apr 21, 2026 · original
TL;DR After a whoopsie-daisy false-start on our initial Kickstarter campaign , we’re ramping up again to launch Kickstarter Final_FINAL_v2 on April 28, 2026 . We’re improving how developers collaborate on the Open Web. Get notified on April 28th! We’ve noticed a few things: Static sites are still the most resilient, robust, long-lasting, and secure architecture when building for the web. Using a static architecture to reduce your attack surface is an investment in your peace of mind. You shouldn’t have to maintain security hypervigilance to run a web site. Developers face too much infrastructure lock-in when shipping dynamic features ( especially in the JavaScript tooling ecosystem). Perhaps you’ve been eyeing the per-compute pricing on your serverless bill as bot traffic increases over time. Adding collaborative editing and content management features to your static web site requires mo
The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome
Mar 23, 2026 · original
As Eleventy enters the Awesomeverse as Build Awesome and joins the esteemed ranks of both Font Awesome and Web Awesome, the possum is taking on more responsibility as well. That’s right, the new iteration of our beloved possum mascot will be representing the larger Awesomeverse of open source projects as well (complete with custom wardrobe)! Puppeteer isn’t just for headless browsers any more. You can read the history of our prior possum commissions: November 2023 from David Neal October 2021 from Geri Coady December 2019 from Phineas X. Jones May 2018 from James Williamson Eleventy Mascot Series (Unknown Name) James Williamson. 22 May 2018. Before the possum, there was the cat Edison James Williamson. 22 May 2018. James pioneered the static-generating possum. Grumpy Phineas X. Jones. 18 December 2019. Our first commissioned iteration. Masked Grumpy Remixed by Ben Brignell. 7 July 2020 (
Eleventy is now Build Awesome
Mar 3, 2026 · original
It’s one small step for 11ty, one giant leap for Build Awesome. When 11ty joined Font Awesome in September 2024 , it was hot on the heels of the successful Web Awesome Kickstarter, notably upgrading the Shoelace project from a bootstrapped side project to a sustainable and thriving full-time open source project with employees supporting its maintenance, new feature development, and future. We are following the same playbook for Eleventy! To support us, subscribe to the upcoming Build_Awesome_Kickstarter final_Final_v2.psd and get notified when the campaign launches! Folks following along closely may have noticed the oopsie-daisy false-start fundraising campaign earlier this week. Given a few email deliverability hiccups, folks not following along closely may not know about the campaign at all! We are taking a mulligan. Subscribe to the Build Awesome Kickstarter What does Build Awesome me
Eleventy, 2025 in Review
Jan 5, 2026 · original
It was another huge year for 11ty. We shipped 177 releases (73% more than 2024) across the full 11ty/* suite. We closed 804 issues (15% more than 2024). We reduced core’s dependency count by 28% and weight by 22% . More folks are building with Eleventy than ever: our year-over-year npm downloads (for only core) are up by 51%! Eight years into this roller coaster of an open source project and it still feels like we’re just getting started! You can also read last year’s Eleventy, 2024 in Review . Highlights Here is a small, curated collection of 2025 highlights: In April, we moved to our own Mastodon server . Also the amazing Eleventy LibDoc community starter project first shipped! In May, we shipped a sizeable v3.1.0 release focused on reducing dependencies and improving build performance! We also shipped an interactive playground component to the docs (Eleventy in the browser!). In June,
Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition)
Dec 12, 2025 · original
In our quest for smoother long term maintenance and hardened security footprint , we wanted to let folks know that we’ve made even more exciting dependency simplification improvements on the v4 canary prereleases ! Notably when comparing v4.0.0-alpha.6 to v3.1.2 , we’ve: Reduced our total dependency count from 134 to 105 ( 21.6% ) Dropped third-party dependency count from 123 to 89 ( 27.6% ) Decreased node_modules weight from 21 MiB to 14 MiB ( 33.3% ) Full History Here’s how things have looked over the full length of the project: Version Deps (3rd-party) Change node_modules Size Change v0.2.0 (2018 January) First npm release! ×401 ( 400 ) - 51 MiB - v0.12.1 (2021 March) ×362 ( 360 ) 9.7% 68 MiB 33.3% v1.0.2 (2022 August) ×360 ( 357 ) 0.5% 71 MiB 4.4% v2.0.1 (2023 March) ×213 ( 208 ) 40.8% 35 MiB 50.7% v3.0.0 (2024 October) ×187 ( 174 ) 12.2% 27 MiB 22.8% v3.1.2 (2025 June) ×134 ( 123 )
Securely Publishing our Packages to npm
Dec 3, 2025 · original
As we harden our release practices in the wake of numerous recent vulnerabilities in npm packages amongst high profile authors, it seems worthwhile to celebrate a major milestone for 11ty core and our official suite of plugins: we are now npm Access Token-free! The @11ty/* ecosystem on npm is now fully migrated to Trusted Publishers . If you’re interested in taking steps to improve your own security footprint, you can read more about the steps we took at No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows Dependency Watch In this same vein, as a project Eleventy has continuously and relentlessly focused on reducing our dependency footprint. You may remember the latest Dependency Watch on our v3.1.0 core release notes : Version Production Dep Count Production Size v3.1.0 ×142 21.4 MB v3.0.0 ×187 27.4 MB v2.0.1 ×215 36.4 MB v1.0.2 ×356 73.3 MB Very astute observers may also be eyeing the up
The Eleventy Community Survey (2025)
Nov 19, 2025 · original
Please participate in the Eleventy Community Survey (and Suggestion Box) (2025) ! As we look to our current and future priorities, this survey offers folks from the community an opportunity to weigh in on what they’d like to see moving forward! Looking for even more ways to help? Head over to our Enhancement Queue on GitHub and upvote feature requests that you think are worthy! Not had your fill of surveys yet? 11ty Bundle is also running one right now as they work through a redesign! Related: Our previous iteration of the survey: Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023)
How We Use GitHub Issues and How That’s Changing
Nov 3, 2025 · original
When new enhancement requests would come in to the Eleventy repository , our typical playbook would include the following: Add a reply comment with the following: By default this repo closes new enhancement requests and places them in a queue for folks to upvote. We do this to avoid a build-up of open issues and got this idea from the lodash project Don’t forget to upvote the first comment with 👍 to register your vote! You can view the current enhancement backlog . Add a needs-votes Label to the issue. Close the issue. This idea was via Sam Selikoff on Twitter ( Archived 2018 context ): Recently I noticed Lodash's repo had 0 open issues. As an OSS maintainer I found this fascinating because Lodash is tremendously popular, and keeping issues down is notoriously difficult. This technique was great and served us well for many years for the primary reason that it communicated that enhanceme

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