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Static Site Generators (SSG): Eleventy and Blogroll Work
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Clayton Errington ☛ Troubleshooting Eleventy Long Build Time
I notice my build times were getting longer but no real changes were made. 11ty is great and has really quick built times and that is one reason why I made the switch a few years ago.
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[Old] Sean McPherson ☛ Getting started with Eleventy
Eleventy has "Get Started" documentation that shows you how to get from a single markdown file to a built site. That is a nice "proof of idea", but I haven't found it to be a helpful way to actually get started with Eleventy. This garden aims to be a better guide for building a simple Eleventy site from scratch.
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Clayton Errington ☛ How I Fixed My Blogroll
I’ve seen in the builds a few of the sites return a 429 and 404 error codes, but also the blogroll had a try/catch to default to sites name and main website if the feed was unreachable. I didn’t realize over time this was the cause of the issues of the total process time in my builds. My builds were taking less than 30 seconds still, but the total command time was lasting upwards to 7 minutes.