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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 an Algolia helper plugin that can read from a project’s files

This plugin has a lot of work to do. We have three simple filters to add, a complex filter, and an event that we can use to send the JSON data from a project to Algolia.

Let’s get things set up as before. Navigate to the final plugin directory of this project, /project-5/start/eleventy-plugin-algolia-helper, and run the project. Then, let’s add our simple filters from Chapter 8jsDate, jsonify, and htmlStrip:

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig, options) {
     eleventyConfig.addFilter
         ("jsDate", function(dateString) {
        return new Date(dateString);
    });
    eleventyConfig.addFilter("jsonify", function(content) {
        return JSON.stringify(content...
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