Build a Blog with 11ty and Strapi

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Eleventy, (also written as 11ty) - tagged the simpler static site generator is anti-framework and does exactly what it says it does; generate static sites. Static sites are slowly becoming the standard for deploying content driven web applications.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://strapi.io/blog/building-a-blog-with-11ty-and-strapi
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Would be nice to see an 11ty/Strapi starter on the starters page.

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Any ideas why I get this error?

[11ty] Unexpected identifier (via SyntaxError)
[11ty] 
[11ty] Original error stack trace: /srv/app/frontend/_data/blogposts.js:26
[11ty]             query: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),
[11ty]                                ^^^
[11ty] 
[11ty] SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
[11ty]     at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:979:16)
[11ty]     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:27)
[11ty]     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
[11ty]     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
[11ty]     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
[11ty]     at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19)
[11ty]     at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
[11ty]     at TemplateData.getDataValue (/srv/app/frontend/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateData.js:489:25)
[11ty]     at TemplateData.getAllGlobalData (/srv/app/frontend/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateData.js:275:29)
[11ty]     at async TemplateData.getData (/srv/app/frontend/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateData.js:338:24)
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[11ty] TypeError: Only absolute URLs are supported (via Error)

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Is there a way to utilize Strapi’s preview with an SSG like 11ty? I really want to use Strapi and 11ty, but my content editors would need a way to preview the newly edited Strapi content on the front end before publishing. I was thinking of using 11ty’s serverless functions, but I can’t use Netlify, which seems to be the default/best way to do 11ty serverless. Is there some other way to handle previews with 11ty?

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I’m working on updating this article and will look at ways of possibly doing that @erich93063 - have you ran into any luck doing that after your message?