Candy

is an Eleventy project starter with loads of sugar on top. Sweet extras like ...
Bootstrap 4, Gulp, Sass, PrismJS, and more!  

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🍫 Delicious Build Pipeline

Yarn  for dependencies.
Gulp  build pipeline with pre-processing of images, CSS, JS.
Nunjucks templates.
Markdown-it  for content + footnote and emoji support.
11ty pulls it all together.

🍬 Yummy Display Goodies

for sassy CSS preprocessing.
Bootstrap responsive component library baked in.
jQuery ready.
PrismJS for syntax highlighting.

🍭 Candy Custom Treats

Blog and Portfolio ready.
Custom Related Posts, Favorites and Tag List widgets.
Custom tags page.
Custom filters.
Ready for RSS.
SEO Optimizations.
All I really need is love, but a little candy now and then doesn't hurt!

From the Blog ...

Candy can be used to as scaffolding to help you get started with a new project. The following steps will get a local version of Eleventy + Candy installed and running.
Candy is using Yarn to manage dependencies and Gulp to manage the build process.
Candy makes it easy to create a blog. Using a combination of Nunjuck layout templates, front matter (with logical defaults) and Markdown, your...
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner.

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