Passthrough File Copy New in v0.2.7 #

Eleventy, by default, searches for any file in the input directory with a file extension listed in your templateFormats configuration. That means if you’ve listed njk in your templateFormats, we’ll look for any Nunjucks templates (files with the .njk file extension).

If a file format is not recognized by Eleventy as a valid template file extension, Eleventy will simply copy this file directly to your output.

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
  return {
    templateFormats: [
      "md",
      "css" // css is not yet a recognized template extension in Eleventy
    ]
  };
};

For example, in the above code sample css is not currently a recognized Eleventy template, but Eleventy will search for any *.css files inside of the input directory and copy them to output (keeping directory structure).

You might want to use this for images by adding "jpg", "png", or maybe even "webp".

Manual Passthrough Copy (Faster) New in v0.2.14 #

Searching the entire directory structure for files to copy based on file extensions is not optimal with large directory structures. If we know what non-template static content we want to appear in our output, we can opt-in to specify files or directories for Eleventy to copy. This will probably speed up your build times. These entries are relative to the root of your project and not your Eleventy input directory.

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
  // Copy the `img/` directory 
  eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("img");
  
  // Copy the `css/fonts/` directory
  // If you use a subdirectory, it’ll copy using the same directory structure.
  eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("css/fonts");
};

Passthrough All Content New in v0.5.4 #

Given that global copy of all content in the directory may be a security risk, we do not copy anything that doesn’t match the file extensions listed in templateFormats. Note that we do provide a command line flag to bypass this behavior: --passthroughall. Intentionally, there is no configuration option to do this.

# Copies ALL files in the input directory to the output directory
--passthroughall

Disabling Passthrough File Copy #

If you’d like to disable passthrough file copy, use passthroughFileCopy: false.

module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
  return {
    passthroughFileCopy: false
  };
};