Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)

About this episode

Zach Leatherman discusses the rebranding of Eleventy to Build Awesome and its implications for users.

Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome — and Zach Leatherman is here to explain what that actually means. In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt has a chat with Zach about the Build Awesome Kickstarter, why this rebrand is part of building a sustainable future for the open source project, and what changes (and what doesn’t) for people already running Eleventy sites. You’ll hear Zach break down the backwards compatibility promise, the Eleventy v3 → Build Awesome v4 upgrade path, and what Build A...

People in this episode

Host: Matt

Guest: Zach Leatherman

Topics covered

• rebranding
• open source
• Kickstarter
• sustainability
• web development

Keywords

• Eleventy
• Build Awesome
• rebranding
• Kickstarter
• open source
• backwards compatibility
• upgrade path

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Build Awesome, Eleventy, Podcast Awesome

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