Eleventy v1.0.2 requires Node 12 or newer. Use node --version on the command line to find your local Node version.

This will compile any files matching valid input template file extensions (.md is one of them) in the current directory into the output folder (defaults to _site).

Run npx @11ty/eleventy --serve to start up a web server. Then open http://localhost:8080/README/ in your web browser of choice to see your Eleventy output.

➡ Keep going! Read a longer Getting Started guide or check out the full Documentation for v1.0.2.

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Listen to what these happy developers are saying about Eleventy:

“Eleventy + Netlify have become my new workflow for static sites. I think I'm in love.” —Mina Markham

“Eleventy is a killer static site generator. That’s all.” —Sara Soueidan

“I heard Eleventy was good” —Lach Zeatherman

“Jekyll is dead to me” —Andy Bell

“Eleventy is my fave.” —Tatiana Mac

“Don’t tell Zach I said it but Eleventy is seeming fresh as hell so far” —Mat Marquis

“Just the kind of simple / common sense tool I love. The data/folder hierarchy mechanism is super obvious and elegant.” —Heydon Pickering

“I actually used Eleventy for the first time this week. Loved it.” —Paul Lewis

“Eleventy is almost fascinatingly simple.” —Chris Coyier

“Eleventy is absolutely wonderful. It’s by far the nicest static site generator I’ve used in what feels like forever.” —Addy Osmani

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“Think the reason everyone is loving [Eleventy] so much (myself included) is that it doesn't come with a prescription about data sources or template rendering.” —Brian Leroux

“Seriously can't remember enjoying using a Static Site Generator this much. Yes Hugo is rapid, but this is all so logical. It feels like it was designed by someone who has been through lots of pain and success using other SSGs.” —Phil Hawksworth

“Eleventy and web components go really, really well together.” —Justin Fagnani

“I looked into and actively tried using various static site generators for this project. Eleventy was the only one I could find that gave me the fine-grained control I needed at blazingly fast build times.” —Mathias Bynens

…and many more!