Porting Jekyll Layouts to Eleventy, Include by Include

Jekyll's Minimal Mistakes theme leans heavily on _includes/ — small Liquid partials for post meta, breadcrumbs, author sidebars, and pagination. Eleventy's Nunjucks engine has a nearly 1-to-1 equivalent in {% include %}, which made this port pretty mechanical.

Mapping table

Where it diverges

Jekyll's Sass-based skins compile a specific color skin at build time — switching skins means rebuilding the site. This theme instead keeps a single stylesheet with CSS custom properties for both night and day, so switching is instant and client-side.

{% include "partials/post-meta.njk" %}

That one include gives us the date, author, reading time, and tag/category chips in a single line, same as Minimal Mistakes' page__meta partial.