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Eleventy By Example

You're reading from   Eleventy By Example Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610497
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bryan Robinson Bryan Robinson
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Website 2. Chapter 2: Adding Data to Your 11ty Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Deploying to a Static Site Host 4. Chapter 4: Building a Blog with Collections 5. Chapter 5: Creating Custom Shortcodes to Add Mixed Media to Markdown 6. Chapter 6: Building a Photography Site with the 11ty Image Plugin 7. Chapter 7: Building a Podcast Website with 11ty Plugins and Custom Outputs 8. Chapter 8: Creating a Static-Site Search with 11ty Serverless and Algolia 9. Chapter 9: Integrating 11ty with a Headless CMS 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom 11ty Plugins 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Converting existing pages to use CMS data

We have a series of pages that need to have their content updated with the new data source. Anywhere in the project that we loop through collections.episodes, we need to replace this with information from the hygraph.episodes array.

Both the index.html file and episodes.html have a simple loop that needs to be replaced. Aside from needing to change the source of the data, we also need to adjust the variables used. While collection item data is stored under a data key, this new data is directly in the episode object. We also need to format the slug to use the /episodes/ prefix to link properly:

{% for episode in hygraph.episodes %}
    <h3><a href="/episodes/{{ 
    episode.slug }}">
        {{ episode.title }}
    </a></h3>
{% endfor %}

Next, we need to update the JSON file that we use to form our Algolia...

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