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Frontenso 11ty Starter

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Updated: 20 Jul 2025
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Production-ready 11ty+Gulp+Webpack Starter that features Nunjucks, SASS, TailwindCSS (with JIT complier), and ESNext.

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Overview:

This product analysis is for a Jamstack compatible 11ty Boilerplate. It is a starter kit that utilizes the power of Nunjucks, SCSS, and TailwindCSS (with a Just-in-Time compiler), Webpack, ESNext, and live reloading. It also includes modern image formats out of the box (AVIF, WebP) and image optimization. The starter kit is designed to be flexible and can be used with any data source. It is a component-based approach with fast builds using Gulp and SCSS support. It does not have any JS-framework dependencies, but preact or any other framework can be added.

Features:

  • Component-based approach
  • Fast builds with Gulp and SCSS support
  • Modern image formats out of the box (AVIF, WebP) and image optimization
  • No JS-framework dependencies (preact or any other framework can be added)
  • Live reloading
  • Linters included
  • Webpack config for most cases
  • Optional TailwindCSS with JIT
  • Optional TypeScript support using JSDoc notation

Installation:

Using this repository as a template

  1. Click on the green “Use this template” button on the GitHub page.
  2. Create a new repository from the template.
  3. Customize and configure the repository to your liking.

Running for development

  1. Install dependencies: npm install
  2. Run the project for development: npm run dev
  3. Open development URL - http://localhost:9000/

Build the project for production environment

  1. Run the build command: npm run build

Creating a zip-archive build.zip

This command uses npm run build to build the project and creates a zip-archive build.zip in the root folder of the project.

Summary:

The Jamstack compatible 11ty Boilerplate is a powerful starter kit that enables developers to quickly set up a project with component-based architecture and modern features such as SCSS, TailwindCSS, and modern image formats. It offers fast builds using Gulp, and supports optional features like TailwindCSS with JIT and TypeScript. The boilerplate is flexible and can be used with any data source. With easy installation and configuration, this starter kit provides a solid foundation for web development projects.