Credits 🙌
Spacebook was inspired by my search for the simplest possible way to spin up a modern website in the least amount of time, with the freedom to extend as needed, zero cost, no maintenance burden, and virtually zero effort.
Eleventy was a perfect fit, and I spent many hours researching these and other starter projects for ideas and inspiration:
- Eleventy Netlify Boilerplate by Dan Urbanowiczi – I used this as the basis for Netlify CMS integration and for my initial overall code structure
- Eleventy-Tailwind-AlpineJS Starter by Greg Wolanski – this was the method I followed for integrating Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js
- Eleventy Base Blog by Zach Leatherman and the Eleventy team – I used this as an “official” reference even though spacebooks do not contain blog functionality
- Staticrypt implementation by various, mostly a ton of trial and error and this helpful Gist linked from the Staticrypt issue queue
- Nextra by Shu Ding – this is a Next.js project that also uses Tailwind and helped inspire the initial design/layout of a spacebook. (Spacebook has now diverged from this quite a bit, and in retrospect, this is a fairly common layout for many modern documentation sites and for a good reason 😍)
- Add Search to an Eleventy website with Elasticlunr by Duncan McDougall – this gave me the basics for integrating Elasticlunr
- 404 – I wanted a spacebook-themed 404 not found page and found this one by Siddhant-K-code. I’m still tinkering on the JS for the animation 😃
Overall I investigated and researched more than a dozen additional Eleventy starter projects for inspiration, code snippets, and to learn more about how Eleventy works. Thanks to all – there is no one “right way” to build an Eleventy site and this is just one small attempt.