The very first Eleventy 1.0 Beta Release

It is my absolute honor to announce that the very first Eleventy 1.0 Beta release is now available on the beta channel. You can try it out now:

# Local project

npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta

# Global install

npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta -g

The Big Features: Jump to heading #

• Requires Node 12+
• Eleventy Serverless, a fantastic way to do dynamic server side rendering on request or lazily via Distributed Persistent Rendering.
• A plugin to help you upgrade from 0.x to 1.x: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-upgrade-help
• Support for CLI arguments to do JSON and NDJSON output (instead of writing to the file system). Use --to=json and --to=ndjson.
• Custom File Extension Handlers! Plugins can now add their own template types and tie them to a file extension.
• Enables the Data Deep Merge feature by default.
• Upgrades to internal template language plugins for: ejs, mustache, liquid. Removes jstl (use 11ty.js instead)
• And more! Check out the full list of 135+ issues in the GitHub milestone.

A Big List of Thanks Jump to heading #

• Our awesome Eleventy GitHub Support Team:
  • Pete DeHaan and Binyamin Green
  • …and any other folks participating in GitHub Discussions or the Eleventy Discord!
• Folks that contributed code, starter projects, plugins, wrote blog posts (share what you learned—on your web site), recorded podcasts or did streams, helped with documentation! Here are a few of our contributors:
  • Philipp Rudloff
  • Mike Riethmuller
  • Alex Russell
  • Samuel Path
  • gloryofrobots
  • André Jaenisch
  • Chris D. Macrae
  • Benjamin Holmes
  • Frank Taillandier (Rest in peace, Frank ❤️)
  • Mat Marquis
  • Mathias Bynens
  • Aravind Voggu
• Our awesome community of over 444 documented Eleventy Authors. The absolute best thing you can do is build something for yourself! Here are the top 11 authors (ordered by number of sites) listed on our showcase:
  • Andy Bell
  • Phil Hawksworth
  • Sam Smith
  • Ryan Gittings
  • Marc Filleul
  • Sia Karamalegos
  • Stephanie Eckles
  • Tanner Dolby
  • Lene Saile
  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • Alistair Shepherd
• Eleventy Leaderboards (the people that built the sites currently holding the top 11 spots)
  • Josh Crain
  • Chris Haynes
  • Raúl Piracés
  • Nic Raboy
  • Steve Stedman
  • Curtis Jurgensen
  • Malte Ubl
  • Carie Fisher, Dennis Gaebel Jr., Eric Bailey, Jen Downs, Jerry Jones, Saptak Sengupta, Scott Vinkle, Tatiana Mac, Wayne Elgin
  • John Kemp-Cruz
  • Reuben Lillie
• Eleventy Meetup organized by:
  • Sia Karamalegos
  • Stephanie Eckles
  • Thomas M. Semmler
• The 11ties, organized last year by Henri Helvetica
• Our Sponsors and Open Collective Supporters:

Wow, such a big list! Do you want to help too?

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