Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release.

• Full docs for v1.0.0 on our web site

This project would not be possible without our lovely community. Thank you to everyone that built something with Eleventy (×476 authors on our web site!), wrote a blog post about Eleventy, contributed code to core or plugins, documentation, asked questions, answered questions, braved The Leaderboards, participated on Discord, filed issues, attended (or organized!) a meetup, said a kind word on Twitter ❤️.

I really wish I had time to list everyone, but I do want to mention a few folks that have made tremendous contributions:

• 🏆 A super special thanks to Peter DeHaan and Binyamin Green for their tireless contributions on the Eleventy Issue tracker.
• All of our supporters on Open Collective ❤️
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Install or Upgrade Jump to heading #

• Install to your local project: npm install @11ty/eleventy
• Already installed in your local project? Upgrade your version: npm update @11ty/eleventy
• Read more about local project versus global installation

Upgrading from 0.x? Try out the eleventy-upgrade-help plugin.

This will log breaking changes that apply to your project. https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-upgrade-help

Breaking Changes Jump to heading #

• Changes Node requirement to 12+ (previously: 10+)
• Data Deep Merge is now enabled by default
  • Docs: Data Deep Merge and Issue #1753
• The ordering in the Data Cascade changed slightly: Front Matter in Layout files moved to be lower precedence, below Template and Data Directory Files (but higher than Global Data).
  • Docs: Data Cascade and Issue #915
• liquidjs v9 major version upgrade changes:
  • setLiquidOptions: Eleventy default for dynamicPartials changed to true. Issue #240 Unquoted include paths will need to be updated or revert using dynamicPartials: false
  • setLiquidOptions: Liquid option strict_filters renamed to strictFilters. Issue #1390
  • setLiquidOptions: Eleventy default for strict_filters/strictFilters changed to true. Issue #222
  • Relative path includes (e.g. {% include "./include.liquid" %}) now look relative to the file first, and the includes directory second. Issue #2090
• ejs v3 major version upgrade changes: Issue #1392
  • Removes <% include /included %> style include, use <%- include('/included') -%> instead. Don’t forget the dash <%- and -%>!
• .gitignore files outside of your project root are no longer supported when calculating ignored paths in Eleventy. Issue #364
  • ✅ {ROOT}/.gitignore (supported)
  • 🚫 {INPUT_DIR}/.gitignore (not supported)
  • ✅ {ROOT}/.eleventyignore (supported)
  • ✅ {INPUT_DIR}/.eleventyignore (supported)
• If you rely on the YYYY-MM-DD format in your file names for content dates, these are now assumed to be UTC instead of local dates. Take care if you use liquid’s built-in date format with page.date!
  • Docs: Content Dates, Issue #1752, and https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/375
• browser-sync:
  • Default to ui: false Issue #843
  • Default to ghostMode: false Issue #841
  • Re-enable these features using eleventyConfig.setBrowserSyncConfig
• Removes the jstl template language. Use 11ty.js instead. Issue #1084
• Change to dataTemplateEngine: false by default. Issue #174

Please use eleventy-upgrade-help to log breaking changes that apply to your project.

Features Jump to heading #

Major Jump to heading #

• Custom File Extension Handlers: applications and plugins can now add their own template types and tie them to a file extension.
  • Docs: Custom Template Languages and Issue #117
• Render Plugin, shortcodes to render other template languages.
  • Docs: Render Plugin
• Serverless Plugin, allow Eleventy templates to run in a serverless function for server side rendering.
  • Use with Netlify Functions and On-demand Builders
  • Docs: Serverless Plugin
• Adds support for --to=json and --to=ndjson
  • Docs: Command Line Usage
  • Use Data Filter Selectors to opt-in data from the Data Cascade. Docs: Configuration: Data Filter Selectors
• Adds support for programmatic Eleventy (e.g. new Eleventy() in your Node.js script)
  • Docs: Programmatic API
• Configuration: addGlobalData method.
  • Docs: Global Data from the Configuration API and Issue #1280
  • Note also that JavaScript Global Data Files now receive data. Docs: JavaScript Data Files

Minor Jump to heading #

• Passthrough Copy now throws an error if two or more files attempt to copy to the same output location. Issue #1677
• For better URL-safe slugs by default, we now suggest using the new slugify global filter instead of the previous slug. slug is still included for backwards compatiblity. slugify Docs. eleventy-upgrade-help includes a permalink checker to compare slug and slugify output. Issue #278
• Added support for protocol relative URLs in the url global filter (though technically accurate, using this method is discouraged). Issue #1276
• New Eleventy supplied data:
  • eleventy Global Data
    • Docs: Eleventy Supplied Data: eleventy Variable
  • Environment Variables:
    • Docs: Eleventy Supplied Data: Environment Variables
    • ELEVENTY_ROOT
    • ELEVENTY_SOURCE
    • ELEVENTY_SERVERLESS
• tags are now de-duped. Issue #1876
• JavaScript functions in eleventyComputed now have access to global filters.
  • Docs: Computed Data and Issue #1862
• Ignores
  • node_modules are now ignored by default. Docs: Ignores and Issue #383
  • Control ignores programmatically. Docs: Ignores and Issue #894 #1405
• Configuration: Access to eleventyConfig.dir in plugins. Issue #922
• Configuration: Events are now Async-friendly
  • Docs: Events and Issue #1363
• Replace chalk dependency with kleur Issue #2113
• Adds template language-agnostic compilation caching for speeeeed Issue #1529
• Fixes bug --input=file.njk --output=. would process 0 files. Issue #1129
• Fixes bug where Eleventy would stop processing templates in watch/serve mode after a compilation error. Issue #1658
• Front matter parsing errors will now report the filename of the offending file in the error message. Issue #1152
• Option to opt-out of the browser-sync JavaScript snippet
• Warning when Transforms that return empty content. Issue #1487
• Transforms now have access to inputPath Issue #789
• Shows the preprocessed template engine name on the console for html or md files Issue #1478

Nunjucks Jump to heading #

• Adds eleventyConfig.setNunjucksEnvironmentOptions method. Issue #895
  • Docs: Nunjucks
• Adds eleventyConfig.addNunjucksGlobal method. Issue #1060

Liquid Jump to heading #

• Adds support for asynchronous filters. Issue #831

Milestone Jump to heading #

All bug fix issues can be perused at the GitHub milestone:
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/32?closed=1

Some internals highlights:

• Improvements to stability with Nunjucks and shortcodes in {% for %} loops
• Fix for EMFILE: too many open files errors
• Use a named browser-sync instance. Issue #1125
• Switch from fs-extra to graceful-fs

Major Version Dependency Upgrades Jump to heading #

These are convenience links provided. Major things of note are summarized in the Breaking Changes section above.

• liquidjs from 6 to 9, release notes: v7 v8 v9
• luxon from 1 to 2: (Node 12+ minimum) Upgrade Guide
• markdown-it from 10 to 12, release notes: v11 v12
• ejs from 2 to 3. Release notes: v3
• mustache from 2 to 4. Release notes: v3 v4

THANK YOU NOTES Jump to heading #

First-time GitHub contributions from @d2s, @Snugug, @slightlyoff, @max, @valtlai, @harttle, @binyamin, @bnb, @NotWoods, @gobeli, @lxg, @GerHobbelt, @hirusi, @stuartpb, @milahu, @oscarotero, @jakemulley, @tannerdolby, @Snapstromegon, @knokmki612, @mariusschulz, @Holben888, @zidingz, @magua-io, @masguit42, @JKC-Codes, @ThewBear, @CodeFoodPixels, @dgrammatiko, @oscard0m, @monochromer

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