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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

Creating the search results page

To start, let’s add a new file in the src directory named search.html. This will contain all the information we’d normally see on a page, such as a title and layout, as well as any HTML we want to display. In this case, we’ll add a search field with some Tailwind classes and an action of /search/ to send the query to this URL.

The one difference we have is the need for a new permalink. In the previous examples, the permalink had been a single string variable in the front matter of a page. When we use the Serverless plugin, we can create permalinks for various instances. This means we need the permalink to be an object instead of a string. Each key in the object should match the name of a Serverless plugin instance. If desired, you can also use a key of build to have the page built statically as well:

<form action="/search/" class="input-group relative flex
    items-stretch w-full mb-4...
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