eleventy ๐Ÿ•šโšก๏ธ v0.9.0-beta.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-08-17 // over 4 years ago
  • Eleventy is a Simpler Static Site Generator.

    ๐Ÿš€ Install this ๐Ÿšง๐Ÿšง prerelease ๐Ÿšง๐Ÿšง to help test the upcoming Eleventy 0.9.0 release:

    npm install @11ty/eleventy@beta --save-dev
    

    ๐Ÿš€ Thank you to the 10 contributors that helped with this release!

    @danielstaleiny @veleek @aarongustafson @edwardhorsford @Ryuno-Ki @paulshryock @jakearchibald @MadeByMike @Munter (and @zachleat I guess)

    ๐Ÿ”‹ Features

    • ๐Ÿฑ Shows Eleventy version in standard console output (should help me out a lot when debugging issues ๐Ÿ‘€) #657
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Relative Includes added in Nunjucks, Liquid (already supported in EJS and Pug) #190
    • โž• Adds support for Passthrough Copy output directory remapping #452 Thank you @MadeByMike!
    • Throws an error if two input templates attempt to write to the same output file (overlapping permalinks) #322 #562
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allows custom options (and formats) in front matter #410
      • e.g. use TOML in your front matter #113
      • e.g. use Front Matter excerpts
    • โž• Adds page.filePathStem variable for permalinks #244
    • JavaScript Templates (*.11ty.js) #622 #627 Thanks @jakearchibald!
      • Throws an error when a JavaScript template returns invalid data format #626
      • When using classes, we now re-use the same instance for data and rendering
      • Add support for JavaScript objects a la exports = { data: {}, render: function() {}
      • Add support for JavaScript Class Fields (Node 12 feature) a la: exports = class { data = {}; render() {} }
      • Add support for multiple exports a la exports.data = {}; exports.render = function() {}
      • Fails gracefully when class/object is missing a render method.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Config file functions do not yet support returning promises, now we throw an error when this happens. #612 Thanks @Munter!
    • Current behavior auto-ignores node_modules directory if .gitignore does not exist. Eleventy will now also auto-ignore if .gitignore does exist but is empty. #389 Thank you @danielstaleiny!
    • Eleventy searches for file extensions are now cross-platform case insensitive. #509 #517 Thanks @veleek!

    ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes

    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Shows path to template on template rendering errors (No more Unknown path) #547
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixes page.fileSlug with JavaScript Templates (was returning fileName.11ty, should be fileName) #588
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixes issue with Liquid shortcode argument parsing (failed on page.* variables) #600
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixes issue with eleventyExcludeFromCollections templates incorrectly throwing TemplateContentPrematureUseError errors. #522
    • โฌ†๏ธ Upgrades browser-sync to remove audit report #428
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixes issue with empty tags in front matter #557 Thanks @edwardhorsford!
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix for TemplateContentPrematureUseError error when using pagination #551, #634.

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