Best minimal @11ty.dev / Build Awesome starters as of Aug 2026: 1️⃣ `buildawesome-content-first` (formerly `subtle`) 2️⃣ `buildawesome-micro-starters` 3️⃣ `eleventy-netlify-boilerplate` 4️⃣ `eleventy-base-blog` 5️⃣ `zeropoint` 🔗 build.blades.ninja/starters/ full list 🔗

Best minimal 11ty / Build Awesome starters as of August 2026

Eleventy ecosystem offers a [wide variety of starters](/awesome/#starters). Not sure where to begin? Start with a minimal template:

build.blades.ninja

Awesome @11ty.dev / #BuildAwesomeKit releases: 1️⃣ `buildawesome-kit` v1.4.0 build.blades.ninja 2️⃣ `buildawesome-content-first` starter v1.2.0 content.build.blades.ninja 3️⃣ 11-in-1 `buildawesome-micro-starters` v1.4.0 ┃for @webawesome.com, @sveltiacms.app, Bs, Tailwind, ... micro.build.blades.ninja

11ty / Build Awesome Kit

Lightweight plugin with essential opt-out features, filters, and scripts. Use it standalone OR fully pre-configured with other popular plugins OR via one of our micro-starters. Get started | Pre-confi...

build.blades.ninja

Meet content.build.blades.ninja 🥷🎈 #BuildAwesomeKit

Build Awesome Content-First Micro-Starter

content.build.blades.ninja

#Meta should really keep it simple: Rename Facebook to “Meta Web” Rename Instagram to “Meta Mobile” Rename WhatsApp to “Meta Messenger” Unify and merge them all Kill Threads And finally simplify Settings to look like system settings on any modern phone (w/o 1000 menus and 10 levels of nesting)

Try to build.blades.ninja 🥷🎈 #BuildAwesomeKit

11ty / Build Awesome Kit

Lightweight plugin with essential opt-out features, filters, and scripts. Use it standalone OR fully pre-configured with other popular plugins OR via one of our micro-starters. Get started   | Pr...

build.blades.ninja

. @netlify.com this artificial restriction is so annoying! Why don't you allow "Package directory" to start with a .dot? Please consider!

#1K_Goals 2026 World Cup summary: 🇵🇹 Ronaldo: ⚽️ 976 (+3) 🇦🇷 Messi: ⚽️ 919 (+8) 🇫🇷 Mbappé: 🥾 435 (+10) 🇳🇴 Haaland: ⚽️ 359 (+7) 🇪🇸 Yamal: 🏆 56 (+1) 🔗 1k.any.digital for full stats [ open-sourced by #BladesCSS using @11ty.dev ]

The Race for 1000 Goals

Who will cross the bar of 1K goals? Tracking active football legends, rising contenders, and their historic season-by-season performance.  Updated: July 20, 2026

1k.any.digital

#1K_Goals Tracker as of July 18: 🇵🇹 Ronaldo ⚽️ 976 🇦🇷 Messi ⚽️ 919 🇫🇷 Mbappé ⚽️ 435 (+2) 🇳🇴 Haaland ⚽️ 359 🇪🇸 Yamal ⚽️ 56 +2 World Cup goals for Mbappé vs England! Will Messi and Yamal score tomorrow? 🔗 1k.any.digital by Blades CSS & @11ty.dev 🔗

The Race for 1000 Goals

Who will cross the bar of 1K goals? Tracking active football legends, rising contenders, and their historic season-by-season performance.  Updated: July 18, 2026

1k.any.digital

... while adding four more sub-starters, including Web Awesome. Its Tailwind sub-starter is now fully isolated in its own sub-folder. `11ty-landing-page` was marked as "not so minimal" due to its ~1000-line tailwind.config.cjs file. 🔗 11ty.blades.ninja/starters/ for full list 🥷 #11tyBuildAwesome

vite downloads 4x in the last 6 months the npm world has gone completely bananas

Best minimal @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev starters as of July 2026: 1️⃣ subtle 2️⃣ buildawesome-starters 3️⃣ eleventy-netlify-boilerplate 4️⃣ eleventy-base-blog 5️⃣ zeropoint 🔗 11ty.blades.ninja/starters/ changelog: `buildawesome-starters` reduced its code size down to 1.5KB while ...

Blades examines: Minimal 11ty starters. 11ty.blades.ninja/st... #eleventy #11ty #BuildAwesome #CMSs

#1K_Goals Tracker as of July 7: 🇵🇹 Ronaldo ⚽️️ 976 🇦🇷 Messi ⚽️️ 919 (+1) 🇫🇷 Mbappé ⚽️️ 432 🇳🇴 Haaland ⚽️️ 359 🇪🇸 Yamal ⚽️️ 56 +1 World Cup goal for Messi vs Egypt after dramatic 0:2 start and missed penalty! 🔗 1k.any.digital by #BladesCSS & @11ty.dev

The Race for 1000 Goals | 1K Goals Tracker

Who will cross the bar of 1K goals? Tracking active football legends, rising contenders, and their historic season-by-season performance.  Updated: July 7, 2026

1k.any.digital

1000 Goals Tracker as of July 7 🔗 1000goals.blades.ninja 🇵🇹 Ronaldo ⚽️️ 976 🇦🇷 Messi ⚽️️ 919 (+1) 🇫🇷 Mbappé ⚽️️ 432 🇳🇴 Haaland ⚽️️ 359 🇪🇸 Yamal ⚽️️ 56 +1 World Cup goal for Messi vs Egypt after dramatic 0:2 start and missed penalty! #1000Goals by Blades CSS & @11ty.dev

+2 World Cup goals for Erling Haaland! 🇳🇴⚽️⚽️ 👇 data.blades.ninja/football/ 👈 track here year-by-year how his 359 career goals stack up against Ronaldo, Messi, Mbappé and Yamal! [ open-source tracker powered by @11ty.dev & #BladesCSS ]

+1 World Cup goal for Kylian Mbappé! 🇫🇷⚽️ See how his 432 career goals stack up against Ronaldo, Messi, Haaland, and Yamal here: data.blades.ninja/football/ [ open-source tracker powered by @11ty.dev & #BladesCSS ]

But, ugh, I should really think about moving away from Svelte. svelte.dev now joins nextjs.org and nuxt.com among many sites that crash when cookies are disabled.

🏆️ Top football goalscorers and runners-up • as of July 3 1 🇵🇹 #Ronaldo ⚽️976 (🌐11) 🟡5 👟4 2 🇦🇷 #Messi ⚽️918 (🌐20) 🟡8 👟6 🏆1 3 🇫🇷 #Mbappé ⚽️431 (🌐18) 👟1 🏆1 4 🇳🇴 #Haaland ⚽️357 (🌐5) 👟1 5 🇪🇸 #Yamal ⚽️56 (🌐1) Year-by-year: world.blades.ninja/football/ [ open-source tracker powered by @11ty.dev & #BladesCSS ]

blades.ninja is #BuiltAwesome #BuiltWithEleventy

Blades • Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML | Blades CSS

Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML Fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS. Introduces float labels, breakout container and other modern, opt-out helpers. Simply switch…

blades.ninja

Web Awesome is now part of 7-in-1 Build Awesome Starter! Out of the box: - @webawesome.com - @fontawesome.com - @11ty.dev v4-alpha.8 - Eleventy Blades kit: RSS/Feed, Sitemap, Navigation, TOC, Render & Bundle plugins preconfigured - #BladesCSS - Prism.js wa.11ty.blades.ninja 🥷 #11tyBuildAwesome

Astro is a great framework, but monopolies are never good for the market. I know that because I used to work in the browser industry. It’s great to see Eleventy staying strong.

more awesome news! 🧩 11tybundle.dev/starters/ now recognizes `Build Awesome version`, thanks to @bobmonsour.com and github.com/anyblades/bu... just became the first one to be recognized! 🥷🕶️ #11tyBuildAwesome

Mac-based #PHP developer? Reeve is what you have been looking for, #Apache/#Caddy/#Nginx, run multiple PHP versions, quick vhost with local TLDs (.lan, .localhost, etc), directory parking, mysql, redis + more! Powered by homebrew. Free and open source getgrav.org/blog/macos-g...

awesome news! 🕶️🪀 as our first try, we just upgraded to `@awesome.me/buildawesome`: 1. github.com/anyblades/el... plugin 2. 11ty.blades.ninja/base/ package 3. 6-in-1 micro-starter: github.com/anyblades/bu... ^ all 3 running on `4.0.0-alpha.8`, 6-in-1 demo here: tw.11ty.blades.ninja 🥷

GitHub - anyblades/eleventy-blades: Essential 11ty filters, pre/post-processors, and other toggleable features as a simple, configurable plugin 🥷

Essential 11ty filters, pre/post-processors, and other toggleable features as a simple, configurable plugin 🥷 - anyblades/eleventy-blades

github.com

What we open-sourced → and who used it: Blades CSS → PalletsProjects.com 🐍 → getGrav.org v2 🛸 @11ty.dev Blades Kit → Hostfurl.com Float Label CSS → Gov.bc.ca Drupal Bricks → Smartsheet.com Drupal Tweme → MariaDB.org 🥷

What we open-sourced → and who used it: 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝙲𝚂𝚂 ²⁰²⁶ → PalletsProjects.com 🐍 → getGrav.org v2 🛸 @11ty.dev 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 → Hostfurl.com 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚂𝚂 → Gov.bc.ca 𝙳𝚛𝚞𝚙𝚊𝚕 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜 → Smartsheet.com 𝙳𝚛𝚞𝚙𝚊𝚕 𝚃𝚠𝚎𝚖𝚎 → MariaDB.org 🥷

every day i encounter another company that had interesting, unique technology pivoting to be an agentic thing / chatgpt wrapper, products are homogenizing at a never before seen rate

Brand new home for Blades CSS, a fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS: blades.ninja 🥷 Built with @11ty.dev v4 and Eleventy Blades kit, sources are open: github.com/anyblades/bl...

Brand new home for Blades CSS, a fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS: blades.ninja 🥷 Built with @11ty.dev v4 and Eleventy Blades kit, sources are open: github.com/anyblades/bl...

actually just recently an old-school `float: left` was the only way to save our super-modern CSS helper in Chrome: blades.ninja/css/link-icon/