Font Awesome Team Launches Build Awesome, Ending Eleventy SSG
Original: The End of Eleventy
Font Awesome team launched Build Awesome Kickstarter campaign, reaching $40,000 goal in one day. The project represents a rebrand of popular static site generator Eleventy (11ty), effectively ending the original framework used by thousands of websites including NASA and CERN.
The Font Awesome team launched a Kickstarter for Build Awesome and Build Awesome Pro, quickly reaching their $40,000 funding goal within a day before the campaign was cancelled due to email delivery issues. Build Awesome is described as a rebrand of Eleventy (11ty), a popular static site generator created by Zach Leatherman in 2017. Eleventy positioned itself as an 'anti-framework' SSG offering flexibility through multiple templating engines including Liquid, Nunjucks, and Markdown. The framework gained adoption among major organizations including NASA, CERN, TC39 committee, W3C, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apache. Static site generators have grown in popularity as alternatives to database-driven CMS systems like WordPress, offering better security, simpler hosting, and faster performance. The transition from Eleventy to Build Awesome marks a significant change for the thousands of websites currently powered by the original framework.
Why This Matters
Major shift in web development tooling affects popular SSG used by tech giants
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