11r - Eleventy dark blog template starter

A dark-themed blog starter built for developers who want a straightforward static site they can customize and deploy quickly. It’s designed around an Eleventy content workflow, with layouts that make long-form writing and navigation feel organized. Styling is handled with Tailwind CSS, giving you utility-first control over typography and UI details without fighting a heavy theme layer. You also get thoughtful writing-focused touches like syntax highlighting and an on-page table of contents for longer posts. If you’re migrating from an existing blog or starting fresh, this template is aimed at getting you to a clean, readable baseline fast.

What's included

• Dark color-scheme blog styling
• Nunjucks template/layout structure for pages and posts
• Tag archive support for organizing content
• Pagination for post lists
• Heading anchor generation for shareable sections
• Nested table of contents generation for long articles
• Prism-based code syntax highlighting with a copy button script
• Basic SEO scaffolding with site-wide metadata via a global JSON file

Ideal for

• Personal engineering blogs and technical writing
• Developer documentation-style articles with lots of headings
• Content-heavy sites that need tags and paginated listings
• Minimal Jamstack blogs you can host as static files
• Writers who want a dark reading experience by default

Tech & compatibility

This starter uses Eleventy for static generation and Nunjucks for templating, with Rollup handling bundling. It also includes integrations for anchors and a nested table of contents, plus Prism highlighting and a small script to support copying code snippets. Styling is configured via a Tailwind config, and the theme includes a custom font family setup.

License & usage

The repository is licensed under MIT, which is generally suitable for personal and commercial use with attribution preserved.