Font Awesome Team Launches Kickstarter to Rebrand Eleventy as Build Awesome
Original: The End of Eleventy
Why This Matters
Potential major change for thousands of websites built on popular open-source framework
Font Awesome launched a $40,000 Kickstarter for Build Awesome, effectively rebranding the popular Eleventy static site generator. The campaign reached its funding goal in one day but was later cancelled due to email delivery issues.
The Font Awesome team launched a Kickstarter campaign for Build Awesome and Build Awesome Pro, which is essentially a rebrand of the popular 11ty/Eleventy static site generator. The $40,000 funding goal was reached within a single day, but the campaign was subsequently cancelled due to technical issues with email notifications that disrupted project momentum. Eleventy, created by Zach Leatherman in 2017, is a flexible static site generator that supports multiple templating engines including Liquid, Nunjucks, Markdown, and Handlebars. Unlike other frameworks, it leverages Node.js without imposing client-side JavaScript requirements. Major organizations using Eleventy include NASA, CERN, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and freeCodeCamp. The rebrand has raised concerns among the existing Eleventy developer community who have invested in themes and support for the current framework.
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