FAQ

Does Baseline lock me in?

No. It's a standard Eleventy plugin. Take it out and your Eleventy site still builds: you keep your content, your config, your output. Baseline adds conventions and wiring, not a cage.

Doesn't Eleventy already do all this?

Eleventy gives you the engine and gets out of your way, which is its whole appeal. Baseline is the setup you'd otherwise wire by hand on every project, the head, the assets pipeline, multilingual routing, sitemaps, an SEO graph, crystallised into one plugin. You could write it yourself. This is the version that's already written.

Is it production-ready?

It's pre-1.0 and ships on a rolling 0.1.0-next.X cadence, so pin a version when you build something you care about. The ground it covers is stable and demonstrated on this very site, which runs on Baseline.

Can I bring my own CSS and JS setup?

Yes. The assets pipeline is a convention, not a lock: one CSS entry through PostCSS, one JS entry through esbuild, and you say where they load. Don't want it? Don't use it; the rest of Baseline doesn't mind.

What does it do for SEO?

It builds a complete schema.org graph for every page, wired with stable @id values, plus Open Graph, Twitter cards, and canonicals. You author identity once and add custom nodes through one seam. (This FAQ is one of those custom nodes.)

Can I get commercial support?

Yes. Baseline is built and maintained by a pleasant view. For priority help, a custom integration, or a site built on it, get in touch at hello@apleasantview.com.