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WORKING ON A WILD @eleventy IDEA TODAY

IT IS WILD

started with 110 errors in the refactor, down to 66 now…

Also posted to Bluesky.

76 replies

Konnor Rogers Bluesky 5 min later

Rewriting in Rust?
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 10 min later
  
  WASMever do you mean
  1. Konnor Rogers Bluesky 1 hr later
    
    WASI right?
Nathan Bottomley Mastodon 8 min later

@zachleat git branch next-js-integration
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 9 min later
  
  @nathanbottomley rm -rf .git
Private reply Mastodon 11 min later
1. Private reply Mastodon 19 min later
Private reply Bluesky 20 min later
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 24 min later
  
  teasey like sunday morning ♩♪♫♬
  1. Eric Portis Bluesky 49 min later
    
    omg first class web midi api support???????
    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 54 min later
      
      wait .midi as a template engine hear me out
Ryan Mulligan Bluesky 46 min later

This is the content I live for 🍿
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 54 min later
  
  aha yes, gotta catch all the errors
Eric Portis Bluesky 50 min later

do... are all of the numbers of errors that you get multiples of 11, like, all of the time?
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 57 min later
  
  haha, …no?
  
  …wait
  1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later
Bob Monsour Bluesky 55 min later
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 57 min later
  
  the best smiles
Eric Bailey Bluesky 1 hr later

airhorn.wav on compile, right
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later
  
  this should be a plugin, probably
  1. Eric Bailey Bluesky 1 hr later
    
    👉👃
    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later
      
      same, tbh
      
      can’t spell nose without no
Pier Bluesky 3 hr later

👀
Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 day later

Just between us, I did it.
1. dan leatherman Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat is this what I think it is
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @danleatherman it’s a rorschach test
2. Rob Anderson Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat love it
3. Matthew Mone Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat FINALLY! I can client side render my blog like all the cool kids!
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @matt HYDRATION ERROR
    1. Matthew Mone Mastodon 3 days later
      
      @zachleat
      I'm doing this right, right?
      eleventyConfig.addTemplate("index.md", "<blog-app></blog-app><script src='./blog-app-bundle-34daef.js'></script>")
      1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @matt *eyes narrow*
4. Khalid ⚡ Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat
5. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat 🤔🤔🤔
6. Paul Everitt Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat Cool vs. Insane. Why choose?
7. Jason Garber Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat what in the sweet goddamn
8. Nathan Knowler Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat "use client" coming to 11ty.
9. Andrew Douglass Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @ardouglass this is karen behavior andrew!!
10. Darby M. Dixon III Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat
11. Mike Mathew Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat 🤣
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @drumsensei it’s only a mistake if you use it wrong… wait
12. Private reply Mastodon 1 day later
13. Tim Severien Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat Finally, 11ty SPAs!
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @timsev these are fighting words
14. Pascal Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat First time a screenshot has this huge impact on my plans ! Thanks !
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @eQRoeil well now you have to reveal your plans
    1. Pascal Mastodon 3 days later
      
      @zachleat I need to build a website with a lot of pages (thousands). I do not want to rebuild the entire site each time an update is needed on 1 page (regularly 1 or few pages will need an update). So the plans were to **start** with 11ty, keep a limited compatibility for site wide changes and dev a solution that allow to make edits from a dedicated app that can produce the same output.
      11ty running in the browser will remove or simplify some of the challenges.
      1. Pascal Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @zachleat I also think it will be easier to make previews and offer alternatives to git based CMS / workflows.
        
        Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @eQRoeil I don’t think you’ll want to build clientside as the user experience for end users (unless I’m misunderstanding) but the rest of it makes a lot of sense!
        
        Pascal Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @zachleat not building clientside for end user (I'd take the lambda / serverless functions route or use Nuxt)
        Only on the "edit app" part
15. Erik Kroes ✅ Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat slowly put down the keyboard...
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @erikKroes ahahahahahahahaha web performance zach is dead
    long live SPA zach
    1. Patrick Haug Mastodon 3 days later
      
      @zachleat oh my oh my
      1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @derhaug (this is a joke of course, not doing the SPA thing here)
        
        Erik Kroes ✅ Mastodon 5 days later
        
        @zachleat @derhaug (or are you?)
        
        Patrick Haug Mastodon 5 days later
        
        @erikKroes @zachleat So many ideas already ..
16. Tyler Sticka Mastodon 1 day later
  
  @zachleat
17. Manuel Matuzović Mastodon 3 days later
  
  @zachleat ☠️
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 3 days later
    
    @matuzo ⚰️
    1. Dave 🧱 Mastodon 3 days later
      
      @zachleat @matuzo 🪦
      1. Khalid ⚡ Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @DavidDarnes @zachleat @matuzo 👻
      2. Eric Portis Mastodon 3 days later
        
        @DavidDarnes @zachleat @matuzo 👻!
18. Private reply Mastodon 3 days later
19. d3v1an7 Mastodon 4 days later
  
  @zachleat ironically, I’m excited about the serverless possibilities this potentially unlocks on non-node runtimes (if I’m understanding the screenshot correctly!) any chance this capability extend through to webc as well?
  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 4 days later
    
    @d3v1an7 what runtimes specifically? I’m aiming for all core plugins to be supported yeah
    1. d3v1an7 Mastodon 4 days later
      
      @zachleat oh heck, that'll be so good! we moved most of our workloads away from netlify over to cloudflare, but the webc cms-preview had to stay on netlify serverless, as i couldn't get it running on the worker runtime (workerd) -- mainly issues with filesystem stuff.
20. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 7 days later
  
  Alright, so the previous demo was a generic Eleventy project in the browser — by itself a big milestone.
  Here’s another big milestone: loading code directly from the `eleventy-base-blog` GitHub repo and using Eleventy to `innerHTML` the generated result directly to the browser. The Eleventy build takes about ~200ms in-browser and uses the RSS, Syntax Highlighter, Image, and Navigation plugins.
  Still a few rough edges but we’re making progress.
  1. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon 7 days later
    
    @zachleat sorcery (good)
  2. Jason Garber Mastodon 7 days later
    
    @zachleat •extremely doctor ian malcolm voice•
    your scientists were so preoccupied—
  3. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 7 days later
    
    (for the record, the use cases here are limited — and should be limited — please JavaScript responsibly)
    1. Andrew Douglass Mastodon 7 days later
      
      @zachleat I’d like to see @cory use this to generate his PHP and run said PHP with php-wasm.
      1. Cory Dransfeldt Mastodon 7 days later
        
        @ardouglass @zachleat I’m waiting for PHP to be added as a supported templating language.
  4. mb21 Mastodon 7 days later
    
    @zachleat I’ve been tinkering with something similar (running a SSG in the browser), what’s your goal here?
    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 7 days later
      
      @mb21 I probably won’t reveal the ultimate goal (yet!)
21. Raymond Camden Mastodon 7 days later
  
  @zachleat so freaking awesome
Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 day later

I did it but you have to find me on Mastodon for details ok byeeee