Adding Data to Your 11ty Website
In the last chapter, we set up the basics of an 11ty website. In this chapter, we’ll give it superpowers by exploring the many ways that 11ty allows us to add static and dynamic data to our templates, layouts, and pages.
At the heart of any website is data. Whether that’s content, structured data, or third-party information, getting data onto a page is the most important thing any site generator can do. By adding a data layer to the simple website we built in Chapter 1, we’ll see how the flexibility of 11ty extends to data via its Data Cascade feature, and how this provides us with great power for customizing our various layouts, includes, and pages.
In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following topics:
- Understanding the 11ty Data Cascade
- Adding data for each page
- Adding data to external files
- Adding global data
