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Add support for a few more options to the CLI

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading the CLI option handling and the linked Eleventy dev-server documentation for liveReload, encoding, showAllHosts, and https. Trace how existing options are parsed and applied, then confirm that each listed option is accepted and behaves as documented.

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Description

enhancement needs-votes

Pending support for:

  • liveReload
  • encoding
  • showAllHosts
  • https

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/watch-serve/#eleventy-dev-server

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
109
Forks
20
Avg merge
6d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Getting set up

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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