JSONFeed VS eleventy-base-blog

If you have a web feed, be it RSS or Atom or JSON Feed, help others discover it!

Imagine you have an RSS feed similar to this. The objective is to obtain that RSS feed, analyze the data it contains, and take action with it. RSS is an XML format, whereas JSON is arguably easier to work with than XML. While many APIs provide JSON results, RSS is less likely to receive them, despite their existence.

At least for now, Astro clearly falls short in this category. Its built-in ability to provide RSS feeds is rather limited, and it doesn’t yet enable JSON feeds at all.5 In the meantime, some users, including Yours Truly, have gotten around this by using the third-party feed package, which supports RSS and JSON feeds.6

want to also support JSON Feed?

-------- # Metadata comes from _data/metadata.json permalink: "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.path | url }}" eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true -------- { "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "{{ metadata.title }}", "home_page_url": "{{ metadata.url }}", "feed_url": "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.url }}", "description": "{{ metadata.description }}", "author": { "name": "{{ metadata.author.name }}", "url": "{{ metadata.author.url }}" }, "items": [ {%- for post in collections.posts | reverse %} {%- set absolutePostUrl %}{{ post.url | url | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) }}{% endset -%} { "id": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "url": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "title": "{{ post.data.title }}", "tags": [ {%- for tag in helpers.removeCollectionTags(post.data.tags) -%} "{{tag}}" {%- if not loop.last %}, {%- endif %} {%- endfor %}], "summary": "{{ post.data.description }}", "content_html": {% if post.templateContent %}{{ post.templateContent | dump | safe }}{% else %}""{% endif %}, "date_published": "{{ post.date | rssDate }}" } {%- if not loop.last -%} , {%- endif -%} {%- endfor %} ] }

Your wish is my command.

11ty is a lightweight static site generator. I chopped up my HTML and used the 11ty starter template called eleventy-base-blog as the structural foundation for the site.

Sure! It's on github at https://github.com/nosecreek/dustin-lammiman - I started with https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog for the basic templating logic.

Eleventy Base Blog demo site Source

To generate a static blog, we will be using Eleventy. Using the blog example from Eleventy as a base for our blog. Clone the repository:

I would do this with Eleventy which is a powerful static site generator with support for html partials (partial is what I call your toolbar here). You would use the template language nunjucks which Eleventy comes with support for, or you can choose plain html too if you don't want the Nunjucks capabilities for logic like if/else, for loops, javascript injection of dynamic values in your html at site generation time, etc. This repo shows most of the techniques you could need and use: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog

For the second site I made using 11ty, I used this repo which is a more advanced 11ty template that can be customized. After following the instructions in the README.md file and edited all the markdown I came up with this:

Pre-established Eleventy Blog Template Go to eleventy base blog to clone the repository to your local file/folder.

The next example we'll look at goes more into depth of 11ty. We are creating this site from this template.

Say you want a more professonal looking site without having to do a lot of extra work, you’re in luck! 11ty has a community that has created templates that are available at this site. For this example, we will use the eleventy-base-blog, make sure to go to this repo and select the USE THIS TEMPLATE button to make a copy of the project in your namespace.