Defining the 11ty Config is an important piece for 11ty to know things like:

• what types of files your using for templating (in our case Nunjucks)
• any deviations for output directories (so 11ty knows where to look for our site & the includes we’ll be creating components and layouts in)

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
	return {
		templateFormats: ['njk']
		dir: {
			input: "src"
			output: "dist",
			includes: "_includes"
		},
		htmlTemplateEngine: "njk",
		dataTemplateEngine: "njk"
	}
}

Netlify gives us a couple of options for how we configure our projects:

• through Netlify’s UI
• through the netlify.toml file

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