⚹ Eleventy Interlinker

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Obsidian-style wikilinks, backlinks, and embeds for Eleventy. Used for both dead-link reporting and stub-generation.

The resolvingFns is why I use this instead of the lighter eleventy-plugin-backlinks alternative. It makes the hover-preview excerpts on wikilinks possible.

The dead-link-to-stubA problem that wiki-linked digital garden run into is figuring out what happens when you reference a note that doesn't exist on disk yet. A traditional website would 404. This site turns it into a stub instead. A stub is… pipeline is the other reason. See Static Site GeneratorsA static site generator takes markdown and templates and compiles them into plain HTML files with no server-side code and no database. For a digital garden that's meant to be worked on continuously, the boring reliability is a great asset.… for why that works because the whole site rebuilds from scratch on every commit.

FoamFoam is a VSCode extension for markdown-based personal knowledge bases: wikilinks, backlinks panel, graph visualization, orphan and placeholder panels. Read from the same flat src/notes/.md files this site already builds from. No server, no separate app, just an editor plugin… also reads the same wikilinks in the editor, giving authoring a graph and backlinks panel before this plugin runs a build.