Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time

January 31, 2019

Originally posted at: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/eliminate-js/

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Older iterations of this website used a third party JavaScript widget to show the number of GitHub Stars the project currently had. This was in fact the only <script> tag on the entire 11ty.dev web site and it was from a third party. Naturally, it needed to be annihilated.

Originally posted at: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/quicktips/eliminate-js/

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Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 85 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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