# Eleventy Netlify Boilerplate (Static site themes)

> Eleventy Netlify Boilerplate is a free, open-source static site theme built with Eleventy. A template for building a blog with the Eleventy static site generator and Decap CMS. It has 546 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and GitHub's Use this template button creates your own copy in one click.

A simple template for building a fast, pre-generated HTML website using the Eleventy static site generator. With Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS) baked-in, ready to deploy to Netlify in a couple of clicks.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/danurbanowicz/eleventy-netlify-boilerplate |
| Built with | Eleventy |
| Live demo | https://eleventy-netlify-boilerplate.netlify.app/ |
| GitHub template repository | yes (Use this template) |
| GitHub stars | 546 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Nunjucks |
| Official | no |
| Category | Static site themes |
| Latest release | none |
| Last commit | May 19, 2026 |

## Get started

Use this template on GitHub: https://github.com/danurbanowicz/eleventy-netlify-boilerplate/generate

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit danurbanowicz/eleventy-netlify-boilerplate my-site
cd my-site
npm install   # then run the dev script from the README
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danurbanowicz/eleventy-netlify-boilerplate.git my-site
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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