Eleventy

Eleventy ↗ is a simple static site generator. In this guide, you will create a new Eleventy site and deploy it using Cloudflare Pages. You will be using the eleventy CLI to create a new Eleventy site.

Installing Eleventy

Install the eleventy CLI by running the following command in your terminal:

npm install -g @11ty/eleventy

Creating a new project

There are a lot of starter projects ↗ available on the Eleventy website. As an example, use the eleventy-base-blog project by running the following commands in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog.git my-blog-name
cd my-blog-name
npm install

Before you continue

All of the framework guides assume you already have a fundamental understanding of Git ↗. If you are new to Git, refer to this summarized Git handbook ↗ on how to set up Git on your local machine.

If you clone with SSH, you must generate SSH keys ↗ on each computer you use to push or pull from GitHub.

Refer to the GitHub documentation ↗ and Git documentation ↗ for more information.

Creating a GitHub repository

Create a new GitHub repository by visiting repo.new ↗. After creating a new repository, prepare and push your local application to GitHub by running the following command in your terminal:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/yourgithubusername/githubrepo
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

Deploy with Cloudflare Pages

To deploy your site to Pages:

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
2. In Account Home, select Workers & Pages > Create application > Pages > Connect to Git.
3. Select the new GitHub repository that you created and, in the Set up builds and deployments section, select Eleventy as your Framework preset. Your selection will provide the following information:

Configuration option	Value
Production branch	main
Build command	npx @11ty/eleventy
Build directory	_site

Note

For the complete guide to deploying your first site to Cloudflare Pages, refer to the Get started guide.

After deploying your site, you will receive a unique subdomain for your project on *.pages.dev. Every time you commit new code to your Eleventy site, Cloudflare Pages will automatically rebuild your project and deploy it. You will also get access to preview deployments on new pull requests, so you can preview how changes look to your site before deploying them to production.

Learn more

By completing this guide, you have successfully deployed your Eleventy site to Cloudflare Pages. To get started with other frameworks, refer to the list of Framework guides.