Eleventy Migration Notes

by
Annika Backstrom
in Meta on 13 October 2025. eleventyVim

In lieu of a retrospective of my weekend-long mad dash to convert this site from Pelican to Eleventy (11ty), here are a few pages I found helpful and some things I learned along the way.

Neovim supports a .lazy.lua file for project- or directory-specific settings.

Working with custom taxonomies in Eleventy means jumping through a couple hoops but it's not impossible. Once you get a handle of the Collections API, it's alright.

It's helpful to have a script for manipulating front matter. Here's mine.