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40.14sEleventy, 2024 in Review
Highlights
It was a huge year for 11ty. The top three highlights have been:
- In October, Eleventy 3.0 stable shipped with so many new features, notably unlocking the optional use of ESM in your Eleventy projects.
- In September, 11ty Joined Font Awesome and it’s been a wildly productive and beautiful partnership! If you’re interested, we talked about it on Podcast Awesome.
- In May, we ran the 11ty Conference and it was an incredible success! You can read an organizer’s retrospective on my personal blog. All of the conference videos are on YouTube. Alongside the conference, we launched a limited time Merch store and an Email Newsletter.
Honorable mentions to Eleventy on Wikipedia and Eleventy in use at The Louvre Museum (among others).
Metrics
I’ve started a little spreadsheet of data points from the 11ty ecosystem. I started doing this in early 2024 so some of the data is a bit incomplete (but noted below).
| Cumulative Metric | 2023 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm Downloads | 7,585,613 | 10,711,017 | 41.20% |
| GitHub dependents | 69,632 | 79,563 | 12.49% |
| GitHub Stars | 15,569 | 17,460 | 12.14% |
11ty-community Sites |
1,018 | 1,175 | 15.42% |
| Mastodon Friends | 3,565 | 4,217 | 18.28% |
| Bluesky Friends | 99 | 2,344 | 2267.67% |
| YouTube Subscribers | 1,880 | 2,498 | 32.87% |
| Discord Members | 3,093 | 3,253 | 5.17% |
| LinkedIn Super Professional Network | 265 | 737 | 178.11% |
| Newsletter Subscribers | 268 | 1607 | 499.62% |
incomplete manual data measured on Jan 31 or Feb 26, 2024
| Year over Year Metric | 2023 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm Downloads | 2,915,939 | 3,125,404 | 7.18% |
| GitHub Issues Closed | 519 | 695 | 33.91% |
| GitHub Pull Requests Closed | 197 | 326 | 65.48% |
New on the Docs
- JSX, MDX, and TypeScript already due for an update with upcoming TypeScript support in Node.js!
- Migrate from WordPress to Eleventy
- Image plugin refactor
- Virtual Templates
You can subscribe to the 11ty.dev docs feed.
Releases
In addition to Eleventy v3 stable, we also shipped major releases for a variety of ecosystem plugins and utilities:
@11ty/importv1.0 is a new CLI to import content (as static files) from various sources. Can import your WordPress site statically (with images/videos/etc) in a single command.@11ty/createv1.0 is a new CLI to create new files in a cross-platform-friendly way.- Eleventy Fetch v5.0 using platform-native
fetch() - Eleventy Base Blog v9.0 using Eleventy v3
- Eleventy Image v6.0 technically this was released in 2025 but we’re counting it since we released v5.0 and v4.0 in 2024.
- Eleventy RSS Plugin v2.0
- Eleventy Dev Server v2.0 (bundled with Eleventy v3)
- Eleventy Bundle Plugin v3.0 (and v2.0)
- Eleventy Vite Plugin v5.0 shipped by Kilian Finger
×13 major releases, ×102 releases total
Thank You!
2024 would not have been possible without our community and supporters.
- To everyone that has built something with Eleventy: thank you!
- To everyone that has answered a question about Eleventy: on the Discord, on social media, in GitHub issues or discussion, at your local meetup or coffee shop: thank you!
- To everyone that has shared or talked about Eleventy on social media: thank you!
- To everyone that attended the 11ty Conference earlier this year: thank you! Thank you to CloudCannon friends David Large, Olivia Nicholson, and Mike Neumegen for their contributions in organizing and running the conference!
- To everyone that dropped a few nice words of appreciation: thank you!
- To everyone that has supported us: thank you!
- Thank you to new Font Awesome friends Dave Gandy and Travis Chase!
- Thank you to Bob Monsour! (of 11tybundle.dev fame)
- Thank you to Kilian Finger for their contributions to the Eleventy Vite plugin!
- Thank you to Peter deHaan and Raphael Höser for contributions on GitHub!
- Thank you to Cory Dransfeldt, Stephanie Eckles, Ben Myers, Sia Karamalegos, Shiv Jha-Mathur, Dan Leatherman, Evan Sheehan, Cassey Lottman, Thomas Michael Semmler for contributions on the 11ty Meetup and our Discord server!