A web development blog written by @zachleat.
I have a lot of open source projects (of varying sizes and shapes). At time of writing, I’m currently maintaining ×78 npm packages. Of those, 22 are super lightweight zero-dependency custom elements a.k.a. 🚾 Web Components ( love the future compatibility I get with very little maintenance required ). In addition, I also have a few active websites and starter/template projects that are open source…
The Build Awesome (11ty) Kickstarter (Final_FINAL_v2) is live! We’re trying to make it easier for anyone to build, publish, and maintain web sites! Update: the Kickstarter campaign has concluded but late pledging (and late pricing) is still available. Go directly to the Kickstarter . Read more on the Blog .
We’re ramping up again to launch the Build Awesome (11ty) Kickstarter Final_FINAL_v2 on April 28, 2026 and in this post I make the case for a new web site builder can layer itself on top of your existing projects as a progressive enhancement. Infrastructure as progressive enhancement! Launching April 28 .
This talk was given at State of the Browser (2026) . Check out the event talk page (which includes a talk transcript, too). We’ll talk about best practices to either reduce (or increase!) the JavaScript footprint on your web site to a sweet and very practical spot for best results. It’s far more common to have too much JavaScript on your web site, but can you go too far? Is zero JavaScript a…
Here I field any and all community questions about the Eleventy rebrand to Build Awesome. Watch on YouTube or below: Watch on YouTube: AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall at the 11ty Meetup Related: Eleventy is now Build Awesome (11ty Blog) Event page on 11tymeetup.dev
The Eleventy project is taking up the Awesome banner. To support the project, please sign up to get notified when our Kickstarter campaign launches !
This is an event post. Also check out my individual talk page . Update : As the talk has already been given, you can find the talk content published on my web site .
* Not official. I was working on my slide deck for the upcoming State of the Browser conference and ran into what I would classify as a recurring issue: HTML needs a logo. There isn’t a broadly accepted official logo for (version-independent) HTML. There is a logo for HTML 5, but that versioned marketing term has long fallen out of regular use (and was introduced 18 years ago). This is a community…
Eleventy started as a side project. Now it’s a critical infrastructure for thousands of websites. TL;DR: Open source isn’t broken. But the way we fund it often is. Let’s talk about what actually works. In this episode, we sit down with Zach Leatherman, creator of Eleventy (11ty), to talk honestly about what happens after open source succeeds. From nap-time coding and nights-and-weekends…
A look back at the 2025 highlights for the 11ty org and the Eleventy project ! 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…