🥷 Build Awesome Starter[s]

June 21, 2026 · View on GitHub

7-in-1 modern, lightweight Build Awesome starter showcasing Eleventy Blades Kit for:

[1] Blades CSS
[2] Pico CSS
[3] Simple CSS
[4] Bootstrap CSS
[5] Web Awesome
[6] Liquid Templates
[7] Tailwind CSS
with Typography plugin via Tailwind CLI

Killer features

  • Eleventy v4 by default
    both v4 (Build Awesome) & v3 supported
  • "Thin client" architecture
    thanks Eleventy Blades for heavy lifting
  • Tailwind v4 CLI
    either Tailwind CSS –OR– your own CSS
  • Blades CSS included
    standalone framework-agnostic helpers
  • Sveltia CMS included
    modern Decap/Netlify CMS successor
  • Multi-site support
    thanks to symlink-based setup
  • One-click start
    Deploy to Netlify

Local development

npm install    # dependencies
npm start      # development
npm run stage  # serve production version locally
               # ready to deploy! 🚀

Add IN=... to build the specific site:

IN=site-webawesome npm start
IN=site-webawesome npm run stage