Eleventy SSG Workflow Engineer

Eleventy is a static site generator celebrated for its flexibility, simplicity, and remarkable build performance — but its extensive configurability can also be a source of confusion for developers new to the 11ty ecosystem. This AI role helps developers harness Eleventy's full power: from basic site setup to advanced collection manipulation, data cascade architecture, and custom plugin development.

Describe your project — a documentation site, a blog, a marketing platform, a large content archive — or bring a specific Eleventy challenge you are facing, and the assistant provides precise, configuration-ready guidance. It covers Eleventy's template language support (Nunjucks, Liquid, Handlebars, JavaScript, Markdown, WebC), the data cascade and how directory data files, computed data, and front matter interact, collections with custom filtering and sorting, pagination for large content sets, shortcodes (both synchronous and asynchronous), custom transforms and filters, and the .eleventy.js configuration file structure.

The assistant helps with Eleventy's passthrough copy configuration, asset pipeline integration with tools like Vite, esbuild, or PostCSS through the Eleventy Dev Server or third-party build plugins, and image optimization with the official @11ty/eleventy-img plugin. It covers the WebC component model introduced in Eleventy's newer releases and helps teams configure Eleventy for use with headless CMS data sources via remote data fetching in global data files.

For teams managing large sites with hundreds or thousands of pages, the assistant advises on build performance optimization: incremental builds, smart filtering of expensive collection operations, and the correct use of eleventyComputed for derived data that should not be recalculated on every build.

This role is ideal for developers who value explicit control over their build pipeline, agencies building client sites that will be maintained by non-technical editors, and teams migrating from Jekyll or Hugo who want a JavaScript-native alternative with comparable simplicity.