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Speaker #6 for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: Paul Everitt @pauleveritt

https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

This is their #BuiltWithEleventy web site (made real good): https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/

Our next speaker for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Sara Joy @sarajw

This is their web site (made real good): https://sarajoy.dev/

Our next speaker for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte

This is their web site (made real good): https://popagandhi.com/

New release: Eleventy Dev Server v2.0.0

🎁 Adds new `onRequest` option for request-time processing
🎁 Adds new `indexFileName` option
🐛 Bug fixes for byte-range requests, pathPrefix, and more!
🤝 4 new contributors!

Release notes: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-dev-server/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Our next speaker for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi

This is their web site (made real good): https://gomakethings.com/

This is what the error messaging looks like when I set `draft: 1` in the front matter of a template file in the directory:

Coming soon to an alpha release near you:

`eleventyDataSchema` lets you validate data from the data cascade: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/879#issuecomment-2062585031

This example in a directory data file checks that the `draft` property is boolean (or undefined):

New on the docs, a dedicated page for Transforms (including a new section on execution order):

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/transforms/

Free Eleventy plugin idea:

Generate a robots.txt file (or other static files that can send headers: e.g. .htaccess) to block the bots, a la this approach by @beep: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/

Would work great with our new Virtual Templates feature: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612

Our next speaker reveal for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Mayank @hi_mayank

This is their web site (made real good): https://www.mayank.co/

Coming soon to an alpha release near you:

Helpful errors when setting reserved Eleventy data properties in the data cascade.

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3251

One more bonus thought on Virtual Templates—they might be easier than pagination to understand (especially for more complex use cases)!

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612#issuecomment-2052628014

New on the docs: Feature Testing and Version Checking in Plugins:

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/#feature-testing
https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/#version-checking

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan has created a quick demo of a plugin using Virtual Templates to output a Netlify redirects file:

https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan/eleventy-plugin-netlify-redirects/

This is a perfect use case for Virtual Templates, using the Eleventy pipeline to output a file without requiring templates in the plugin consumer’s project.

Our very first speaker reveal for The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good: https://conf.11ty.dev/#speakers

Henry Desroches @henry

This is their web site (made real good): https://henry.codes/

Eleventy 3.0.0-alpha.6 is now in the wild, adding:

1️⃣ Virtual Templates: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1612
2️⃣ `eleventyConfig.directories` with access to normalized project-relative directory paths https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3244
3️⃣ `config` named export from Configuration files https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3246
4️⃣ `set*Directory` config methods https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1503
5️⃣ `ELEVENTY_VERSION` environment variable
6️⃣ Bug fixes!!

📣 Arbitrary Milestone Alert 📣

We now have 1000 folks attending the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good!

If you haven’t yet, register today! https://conf.11ty.dev/#register

Coming to an alpha release (v3.0.0-alpha.6) near you:

1️⃣ `eleventyConfig.directories` contains the full normalized project-relative paths for your Eleventy project dirs (via CLI or config) https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3244

2️⃣ More robust option for `config` export from config file means folder definitions are consistent throughout configuration execution. https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3246

3️⃣ Configuration API methods (e.g. `eleventyConfig.setInputDirectory()`) to set your project dirs https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/1503

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