Now that Eleventy supports ESM (from version 3.x), it means we can use it in places we couldn't previously.

Deno is a fast, secure and great alternative to Node and now supports most of the node ecosystem, so it seems like a great time to try and bring the two together in a starter project, and that's exactly what this is. Deno.deploy is also a super great place to try out ideas and has native key-pair database for doing server-side like things.

I like what this project sets out to achieve and it pairs great with Eleventy... you can do client side routing pretty easily with minimal changes to your markup.

At the time of writing WebC has only partial support at the moment when running in Deno, using attributes like @content etc seem to fail, so I've paired my WebC usage back to just the stuff that works. Hopefully there'll soon be a WebC release that is also ESM in which case it should all just work. In any case, nunjucks just works and you can still add things to a css bundle per file, so the only real thing I miss from using WebC is css scoping.