Eleventy Midnight Blog Starter

Minimalist dark mode starter template for 11ty with support for jsfiddle embeds and prismjs syntax highlighting.

Demo https://11ty-midnight.netlify.app

Features

1. Minimalist dark mode design
2. Color gradient highlights
3. Support for jsfiddle embeds
4. Code formatting using prisma

Getting Started

1. Clone this Repository

git clone https://github.com/sidswork/11ty-midnight.git my-blog-name

Or you can click the Use this template button on the repository to make a copy of the repository.

2. Navigate to the directory

cd my-blog-name

Specifically have a look at .eleventy.js to see if you want to configure any Eleventy options differently.

3. Install dependencies

npm install

4. Edit _data/metadata.json

This file contains all the metadata related to the blog like the title, description, etc.

5. Run Eleventy

npx eleventy

Or build and host locally for local development

npx eleventy --serve

Or build automatically when a template changes:

npx eleventy --watch

Or in debug mode:

DEBUG=* npx eleventy

Implementation Notes

• about/index.md shows how to add a content page.
• posts/ has the blog posts but really they can live in any directory. They need only the post tag to be added to this collection.
• Add the nav tag to add a template to the top level site navigation. For example, this is in use on index.njk and about/index.md.
• Content can be any template format (blog posts needn’t be markdown, for example). Configure your supported templates in .eleventy.js -> templateFormats.
  • Because css and png are listed in templateFormats but are not supported template types, any files with these extensions will be copied without modification to the output (while keeping the same directory structure).
• The blog post feed template is in feed/feed.njk. This is also a good example of using a global data files in that it uses _data/metadata.json.
• This example uses three layouts:
  • _includes/layouts/base.njk: the top level HTML structure
  • _includes/layouts/home.njk: the home page template (wrapped into base.njk)
  • _includes/layouts/post.njk: the blog post template (wrapped into base.njk)
• _includes/postlist.njk is a Nunjucks include and is a reusable component used to display a list of all the posts. index.njk has an example of how to use it.

Shortcodes

JSFiddle

You can embed jsFiddle iframes using this shortcode

{% jsFiddle "<iframe-src-from-jsfiddle>" %}

Example

{% jsFiddle "//jsfiddle.net/sidswork/apk0wg96/embedded/js,html,result/dark/" %}

References

Dark mode blog starter based on the Official Eleventy Base Blog

Eleventy Home Page https://www.11ty.dev