Documentation

Overview

Baseline makes the structural decisions that Eleventy leaves open — directory layout, asset pipeline, image handling, SEO, sitemaps — and wires them together so you can skip the setup and start building.

Work in progress: APIs and defaults may shift.

Who it’s for

• You’ve started a new Eleventy project and found yourself wiring up the same things for the third time.
• You want those decisions made together, so they fit together — but you still own your site.
• You’d rather start from a working baseline than a blank slate or a theme.

Quick start

• Baseline concepts: Baseline Concepts
• Quickstart (checklist): Docs Quickstart
• Build from scratch: Build a Simple Baseline Site
• Add to an existing site: Integrate with Eleventy Base Blog
• Set correct URLs: Deployment URL Checks

Good to know

• Package: @apleasantview/eleventy-plugin-baseline (npm). APIs may still shift.
• Set site.url via env for correct canonicals and sitemaps. Use pathPrefix if deploying under a subpath.