Build Awesome helps you build better websites.

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Now try editing one of the three files in this project. You can make use of Front Matter, Liquid and Markdown template syntax. Change the title in front matter on a blog post and watch the list update on the index page!

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subject: World
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# Hello {{ subject }}

You can type here!

- [Markdown](/docs/languages/markdown/)
- [Liquid](/docs/languages/liquid/)

## Posts

{%- for post in collections.posts %}
- [{{ post.data.title }}]({{ post.url}})
{%- endfor %}

_Built with {{ buildawesome.generator }}_

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News from the Blog

• Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! (2026 April 28)
• Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement (2026 April 21)
• Eleventy is now Build Awesome (2026 March 03)
• Securely Publishing our Packages to npm (2025 December 03)
• Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available — 11% faster and 22% smaller! (2025 May 13)
• 11ty is joining Font Awesome (2024 September 12)
• …and 70 more on the blog archives.

Why should you use Build Awesome?

• Build Awesome has fast builds and even faster websites.

  Name	Building ×4000 Markdown Files
  Build Awesome	1.93s	== 🏁
  Astro	22.90s	======================= 🏁
  Gatsby	29.05s	============================== 🏁
  Next.js	70.65s	======================================================================= 🏁

• Build Awesome is production ready and trusted by:
  • NASA
  • Cern
  • TC39
  • W3C
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Mozilla
  • Font Awesome
  • Apache
  • freeCodeCamp
  • …and more
  Build Awesome has been downloaded 19,487,145 times and is used on 88,000+ repositories on GitHub.
• Build Awesome offers full control over your project’s output. We don’t inject our own markup into your pages.
• Build Awesome has a lovely community of folks that really care about what they build. What is Chris Coyier saying about Build Awesome and Eleventy?
• Build Awesome and it’s predecessor Eleventy are stable. We’ve shipped 226 releases going back to the first version in December 2017 and only three of those releases have required developer intervention.

  a11yproject.com launched with version 1.0.0 of Eleventy. […] It's been a little under three years and I haven't had to make any adjustments to its dependencies, and it can still install and run from a cold start with no complications. When I update the site to use version 2.0.0 I'll actually be removing dependencies, and not adding more. […] That's rare and special.— Eric Bailey

• Build Awesome doesn’t track you. We don’t have or use telemetry nor require you to opt-out of data collection.
• Build Awesome is zero-config to start and can be extended with flexible configuration options.
• Build Awesome works with multiple template languages. You can pick one or use them all together in a single project:
  • HTML *.html
  • Markdown *.md
  • WebC *.webc
  • JavaScript *.11ty.js
  • Liquid *.liquid
  • Nunjucks *.njk
  • Handlebars *.hbs
  • Mustache *.mustache
  • EJS *.ejs
  • Haml *.haml
  • Pug *.pug
  • TypeScript *.ts
  • JSX *.jsx
  • MDX *.mdx
  • Sass *.scss
  • Custom *.*
• Build Awesome uses independent template languages. We don’t want to hold your content hostage with a custom format. If you decide to use a different syntax later, having your content decoupled in this way will make migration easier.
• Build Awesome does not require that you use a JavaScript framework—that means zero client-side JavaScript by default across the board. We’re thinking long-term to opt-out of the framework rat race. The tool chain, modules, and components you use in your front end stack are decoupled from this tool. Work from a solid foundation of pre-rendered templates that suit your project’s progressive enhancement baseline requirements.
• Build Awesome works with your project’s existing directory structure. The tool doesn’t require an app directory or a pages directory. Use the structure that you want.
• Build Awesome allows incremental adoption. We only look for the files and directories you specify. Further, with even more precision you can opt-out or ignore specific files in your project. You don’t need to start a Build Awesome project from scratch. Build Awesome is flexible enough to allow conversion of only a few templates at a time. Migrate as fast or as slow as you’d like.

Get started with Build Awesome today! or read more about its predecessor Eleventy’s project goals (from 2018).

Todd and Bruce said this button should be bigger and as you can see they were right.

Built Awesome

tc39.es

developer.chrome.com

designsystem.webstandards.ca.gov

gsap.com

v8.dev

a11yproject.com

filamentgroup.com

every-layout.dev

nordhealth.design

blog.glitch.com

duetds.com

11ty.dev

docs.flutter.dev

quire.getty.edu

cloudcannon.com

atomic.financial

blog.mozilla.org/addons

eslint.org

blog.fontawesome.com

ffconf.org

moderncss.dev

lit.dev

A random sample taken from 901 authors. Check out the fastest of their 1308 websites.

Don’t take my word for it 🌈 Rainbow

Listen to what these happy developers are saying about Build Awesome and Eleventy:

…and many more!

Alternatives

This project aims to directly compete with all other static site generators. We encourage you to try out a few others:

• Jekyll (Ruby)
• Hugo (Go)
• Hexo (JavaScript)
• Gatsby (JavaScript using React)
• Nuxt (JavaScript using Vue)
• Next.js (JavaScript using React)
• Bridgetown (Ruby)
• Astro (JavaScript)
• Remix (JavaScript using React)
• SvelteKit (JavaScript using Svelte)
• More at jamstack.org