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eleventy-plugin-helmet

A document head manager for Eleventy.

This Eleventy plugin will manage any elements you want to append to the document head.

In your templates, annotate any HTML tag inside the body with a data-helmet attribute, and it will be outputted in the document head.

Features

Example

Assume variable home is set to true for the homepage (index.html), and false otherwise.

layout.njk:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    {% if home %}
      {% include "home.njk" %}
    {% else %}
      {% include "not-home.njk" %}
    {% endif %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/page.css" data-helmet="page-css" />
  </body>
</html>

home.njk:

<h1>Title</h1>
<p>Hello World!</p>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/home.css" data-helmet="page-css" />
<title data-helmet>Title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Hello World!" data-helmet />

not-home.njk

<h1>Some Page</h1>
<p>Some Page Content!</p>
<title data-helmet>Some Page</title>
<meta name="description" content="Some Page Content!" data-helmet />

outputs:

index.html:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/home.css" />
    <title>Title</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Hello World!" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Title</h1>
    <p>Hello World!</p>
  </body>
</html>

not-home.html:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css" />
    <title>Some Page</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Some Page Content!" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/page.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Some Page</h1>
    <p>Some Page Content!</p>
  </body>
</html>

Installation

$ npm install --save eleventy-plugin-helmet

In your .eleventy.js file, register the plugin:

const eleventyHelmetPlugin = require('eleventy-plugin-helmet');

module.exports = (eleventyConfig) => {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(eleventyHelmetPlugin);
};

Advanced: Using Helmet with an Existing PostHTML Pipeline

If you happen to have existing Eleventy transforms leveraging PostHTML, you can hook this plugin into the pipeline like so:

const { postHtmlPlugin: eleventyHelmetPlugin } = require('eleventy-plugin-helmet');

module.exports = (eleventyConfig) => {
  const pipeline = postHtml()
    .use(...) // Your other PostHTML plugins.
    .use(eleventyHelmetPlugin);
  eleventyConfig.addTransform('postHtml', async (content, outputPath) => {
    if (outputPath.endsWith('.html')) {
      const { html } = await pipeline.process(content);
      return html;
    }
    return content;
  });
}

Use Cases

This plugin promotes structuring your templates independent from each other - your layout template no longer has to be responsible to e.g. add stylesheets only if a certain child template is loaded. Instead, add a Helmet tag to the child template directly, and the stylesheet will only be embedded when it is really needed.

Other use cases include:

Compatibility

Internally, this plugin uses an async PostHTML pipeline, and therefore requires Eleventy >= 0.7.

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG for a list of changes.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 Mark van Seventer

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