Flax is a preconfigured eleventy setup to allow documentation

• a theming engine [theme]
• a postcss setup
• a coherent njk layout system
• a set of 11ty plugins
• a common markdown language with custom scripts
• a esbuild to manipulate all the needed js
• pagedjs support to have nicely made pdf
• an asset system for element on the site (how should we handle svg).

you can add the system on top of any

• book flavor (single or multiples)
• journal flavor (single or multiple)
• preprint flavor
• custom flavor (simply add your own setup)

flax is a great system to generate documentation output as website or as printed matters. it can also include a single cms system

set base.njk with theme inside.

set json file to manage data and theme

[theme] to set the theme:

1. import the theme you want (flax install theme)
2. set the theme in site.json

[copy] the static folder includes a folder named tocopy , anything in that folder is copied to the end site based on the root. so if you add a /copy/fonts/something.ttf it will be available, on the website as /fonts/something.ttf It’s very useful for static elements that need to be available on the site, and not created by flax