Technical requirements
This chapter will continue the work from Chapter 7 on the podcast website. As such, we’ll work from the Project 4 directory in the GitHub companion repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Eleventy-by-Example.
Since we’re using Algolia as our search index, you’ll need to create a free Algolia account to follow along with the chapter. For most small sites, the free account is plenty to get started.
While there are no other requirements for working locally with this chapter, if you wish to deploy this website, a Netlify account and project are recommended. 11ty Serverless can work with other providers, but the defaults are designed to work best with Netlify.
With everything installed and created, we’re ready to create our first search index.