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A free, user-friendly static website generator starter project designed to get you "up to zero" when building your site, letting you focus on your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript rather than setting up your build tools.

With first-class support for GitHub Pages and Netlify, ZeroPoint has everything you need to get started building your website, including:

Or just upload the public directory to a webserver with FTP!

How far does it get me?


Building a website is a big job. ZeroPoint does the tedious part of setting up your project for you, giving you a place to put all your content, styles, and scripts, so you can focus on the fun part: building your site!

  • πŸ—ΊοΈ A simple, easy-to-understand project structure powered by Eleventy
  • ✏️ Example content types and site data
  • ✨ Custom fields built in
  • βš’οΈ Sass and JavaScript compilation and minification
  • πŸš€ Optional automated deployment to GitHub Pages or Netlify
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Additions and Expansions


ZeroPoint strives to be as bare-bones as possible, including only what you really need to get started. Here are some examples of additional features you can add to your project:

  • Blog — Blog with dynamically generated, paginated tag archives.
  • Bootstrap 5 — Adds Bootstrap 5 Sass and Javascript to the ZeroPoint asset pipeline.

What is ZeroPoint?


Starting a web project can be exhusting!

Static Site Generators like Eleventy and the Jamstack in general are amazing, but an SSG usually requires some time and troubleshooting to get Javascript and CSS loading, and to get all your pages and assets organized.

Most importantly it can be difficult for new users to know where to start!

ZeroPoint aims to get you started faster by giving you a simple, easy-to-understand project structure that you can build on. ZeroPoint is designed to be a starting point for your project, not a finished product.

Okay but what is ZeroPoint really?


ZeroPoint is a modern, opinionated, bare-bones static site generator starter using Eleventy to get "up to zero" on a project quickly and easily. Why you might choose gZeroPoint as your website project starter:

  • Powered by Eleventy, which rocks!
  • No CSS frameworks or libraries; use whatever you want
  • Sass for CSS
  • Compilation and minification for CSS and Javascript
  • Optional automated deployment to GitHub Pages or Netlify