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BUG REPORT · ELEVENTY

Bug Report for Eleventy

Bug reports with severity, environment, and reproduction steps. Free for 500 submissions per month — no backend, no SDK, no plugin.

500/mo free·no card·drop-in for Eleventy
form.htmlhtml28 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New bug report">
04
05 <label for="title">Short summary *</label>
06 <input id="title" type="text" name="title" placeholder="What went wrong?" required>
07 <label for="severity">Severity *</label>
08 <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
09 <option value="">Choose…</option>
10 <option>Critical</option>
11 <option>High</option>
12 <option>Medium</option>
13 <option>Low</option>
14 </select>
15 <label for="browser">Browser &amp; OS</label>
16 <input id="browser" type="text" name="browser" placeholder="Chrome 120 / macOS">
17 <label for="steps">Steps to reproduce *</label>
18 <textarea id="steps" name="steps" placeholder="1. Go to…
192. Click…
203. See error" required></textarea>
21 <label for="email">Your email (so we can follow up) *</label>
22 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="you@example.com" required>
23
24 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
25 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
26
27 <button type="submit">Send</button>
28</form>
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§ 00Eleventy + Bug Reportplatform-specific integration guide

Why Eleventy developers choose splitforms for bug report

Eleventy (11ty) is a flexible static site generator that lets you use any templating language, but it doesn't process form submissions — the output is static HTML. Adding a Node server or a Netlify function just for a contact form defeats the simplicity that makes Eleventy appealing. The bug report on this page posts from the browser to splitforms, so your Eleventy site stays static. It works with Nunjucks, Handlebars, Liquid, Markdown, and every Eleventy template language because the form is plain HTML.

§ 00Quick answerHTML · support

Yes — this is the shortest safe path for Eleventy.

Use the HTML snippet on this page, keep the bug report fields visible in your Eleventy UI, and let splitforms handle delivery, spam filtering, storage, and webhooks.

best implementation

Paste the HTML version, then replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY.

The posted payload contains short summary, severity, browser & os, steps to reproduce, your email (so we can follow up). Required fields are short summary, severity, steps to reproduce and your email (so we can follow up).

native eleventy reality

Eleventy is a Node-based static site generator — it produces HTML at build time and ships nothing else.

use case fit

User-reported bugs are signal — but only if the report has steps-to-reproduce and a screenshot. The form forces the structure, then files the issue automatically.

§ 01Bug Report × Eleventywhy this combination, in 80 words

Built for Eleventy developers who hate operating a backend.

Splitforms is the form backend for Eleventy sites. One POST endpoint, no SDK, no plugin — drop the bug report into a page and ship.

Splitforms is the form backend for Eleventy sites. One POST endpoint, spam filtering, and a real dashboard — drop-in, no server, no PHP. Free for 500 dashboard submissions per month; Starter adds email, signed webhooks, exports, and retained uploads; Pro is $5/mo for 5,000.

✦ what you get on the free plan
  • 500 form submissions per month
  • 2 forms on Free; unlimited forms on Pro
  • Spam protection (honeypot + classifier)
  • Webhooks: Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, custom
  • CSV export of all submissions
  • Email notifications (CC and BCC on Pro)
§ 02Copy-paste codeHTML · 28 lines

Drop into any Eleventy project.

Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with your splitforms key, paste into a Eleventy page, and ship. No build-time integration required.

form.htmlhtml28 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New bug report">
04
05 <label for="title">Short summary *</label>
06 <input id="title" type="text" name="title" placeholder="What went wrong?" required>
07 <label for="severity">Severity *</label>
08 <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
09 <option value="">Choose…</option>
10 <option>Critical</option>
11 <option>High</option>
12 <option>Medium</option>
13 <option>Low</option>
14 </select>
15 <label for="browser">Browser &amp; OS</label>
16 <input id="browser" type="text" name="browser" placeholder="Chrome 120 / macOS">
17 <label for="steps">Steps to reproduce *</label>
18 <textarea id="steps" name="steps" placeholder="1. Go to…
192. Click…
203. See error" required></textarea>
21 <label for="email">Your email (so we can follow up) *</label>
22 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="you@example.com" required>
23
24 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
25 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
26
27 <button type="submit">Send</button>
28</form>
§ 03Setup3 steps · 60 seconds · zero config

Generate, embed, receive.

Three actions stand between you and your first bug report submission. None of them require a backend, a database, or a CAPTCHA library.

STEP 01GENERATE

Generate a free splitforms key

Sign in at splitforms.com — your access key is created instantly. No credit card, no setup wizard, no SDK to install.

Create your form
key=sk_live_••••••••
STEP 02EMBED

Paste the bug report into your Eleventy project

Drop the form snippet into a Eleventy page, component, or layout. Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. The form action is a hard-coded URL — no env vars or build-time wiring needed.

snippethtml
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  …
</form>
STEP 03RECEIVE

Receive submissions

Dashboard updates live on Free. Starter adds email delivery, signed webhooks, CSV export, Slack/Discord forwarding, and BCC to your team.

inbox · 1 newjust now
FROM contact@yoursite.com
New bug report
Maya Iyer maya@studio71.co
Loved the demo — quick question about pricing on the 3-year plan. Are usage limits per project or account-wide?
§ 03bBug Report Form (Issue Submission)template-specific playbook

The reason this bug report exists.

Screenshot upload (Pro) · webhooks into Linear / GitHub Issues / Slack.

why it matters

Bug reports without reproduction steps waste hours of triage. The form structures the report — what happened, what was expected, steps to reproduce, browser / OS / device, screenshot. Screenshot upload is critical: 'the page broke' tells you nothing; a screenshot of the broken state tells you everything. Webhook the structured report into Linear or GitHub Issues so it lands as a triageable ticket, not a Slack message that scrolls away. For SaaS teams the time saved is huge — instead of a 4-message back-and-forth gathering basic context, the engineer opens the issue and starts debugging.

route the submission
01

Structure the report

Required: what happened, what you expected, steps to reproduce. Optional: browser, OS, device, URL where it occurred. Most templates auto-detect browser/OS via JS so the user doesn't have to fill them.

02

Screenshot upload

Pro file upload — drag-and-drop a screenshot or screen recording. Multi-file accepted. Image attachments arrive on the email and via webhook with signed URLs.

03

Webhook into Linear / GitHub

Lands as a Linear issue or GitHub issue with the structured report as the body and the screenshot embedded. Engineer opens, reproduces, fixes — no triage thread needed.

§ 03cEleventy production notesnative path · deploy · gotchas

What changes when this bug report lives in Eleventy.

These notes come from the Eleventy platform registry and are rendered on this template page so crawlers see the framework-specific answer without opening a separate guide.

without splitforms

Eleventy is a Node-based static site generator — it produces HTML at build time and ships nothing else. There is no runtime, no /api/contact endpoint, no hooks for handling a form POST. The historical workarounds: (a) deploy to Netlify and use Netlify Forms, (b) write a Cloudflare Worker that handles POST /contact and forwards to your email provider (~4 hours plus ongoing operation), or (c) use a third-party form API (Formspree, Web3Forms, Basin, splitforms). Eleventy's data cascade lets you neatly pull an access key from _data/site.js and use it in a Nunjucks/Liquid include — but the actual delivery layer is always external. Splitforms is the lowest-friction external option.

deploy notes

Eleventy deploys to any static host. The form posts cross-origin to splitforms.com so the host is irrelevant for delivery. Eleventy v3's ESM-only config is the major upgrade gotcha — .eleventy.js (CommonJS) silently stops exposing globals; rename to eleventy.config.mjs. Local dev runs on localhost:8080 — add to splitforms allowed-domains for testing or use a separate dev key. _data/site.js (not .json) lets you read from process.env; keep .env in gitignore. For 11ty + Netlify (the classic combo), you can use Netlify Forms instead, but you cap out at 100/mo — splitforms gives 500/mo and works on every host.

Eleventy gotcha

Eleventy v3 is ESM-only — your config must be .mjs

If you upgraded to Eleventy 3 and your .eleventy.js (CommonJS) silently stopped exposing globals, that's why. Rename to eleventy.config.mjs and use ESM export default. Otherwise addGlobalData('splitformsKey', …) won't reach your templates.

Eleventy gotcha

Liquid filters and Nunjucks filters have different names

{{ '/thanks/' | url }} works in Nunjucks (with the eleventy-plugin-url plugin). In Liquid, the filter is | url_for or you skip the filter entirely and write the path literally. Mismatched filter names render nothing — the form's redirect URL becomes empty.

Eleventy gotcha

Global data with sensitive values gets committed by accident

If you put your access key in _data/site.json (the obvious place), it ships to your repo. Use _data/site.js and read from process.env.SPLITFORMS_KEY instead — then add .env to gitignore. Eleventy auto-loads .env if you have dotenv installed.

Eleventy gotcha

Permalinks: false on the contact page makes the redirect fail

If your contact page has permalink: false (rare but possible), it's not built — and splitforms's redirect target points at a 404. Always ensure both the form page and the /thanks page have valid permalinks.

PATTERN A

Pattern A — Nunjucks include from `_includes/partials/`

Save as src/_includes/partials/contact-form.njk. Use from any template with {% include "partials/contact-form.njk" %}. Pulls the key from a global data file that reads process.env.SPLITFORMS_KEY. Use the same wiring for the bug report fields on this page.

pattern-a.htmlhtml7 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="{{ splitformsKey }}" />
03 <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="{{ '/thanks/' | url }}" />
04 <input name="email" type="email" required />
05 <textarea name="message" required></textarea>
06 <button type="submit">Send</button>
07</form>
PATTERN B

Pattern B — Eleventy v3 ESM config

Eleventy 3 is ESM-only. Use eleventy.config.mjs and addGlobalData to wire the key from environment. Liquid templates work the same way — just save as .liquid. Use the same wiring for the bug report fields on this page.

pattern-b.htmlhtml6 lines
01// eleventy.config.mjs
02import "dotenv/config";
03export default function (config) {
04 config.addGlobalData("splitformsKey", process.env.SPLITFORMS_KEY);
05 return { dir: { input: "src", output: "_site" } };
06}
§ 04Field-by-field rundown5 fields · names you POST

What every field actually does.

Each field below ships in the bug report template — rename, remove, or add your own. Splitforms accepts any name you POST.

titleREQUIRED
TEXT

Short summary

Buyer-persona signal — IC vs decision-maker changes the follow-up cadence.

placeholder · What went wrong?
severityREQUIRED
SELECT

Severity

Triage signal — drives whether this pages on-call or waits till Monday.

CriticalHighMediumLow
browser
TEXT

Browser & OS

Repro context for engineering — saves a back-and-forth.

placeholder · Chrome 120 / macOS
stepsREQUIRED
TEXTAREA

Steps to reproduce

Free-text input — no character limit, expands as the visitor types.

placeholder · 1. Go to… 2. Click… 3. See error
emailREQUIRED
EMAIL

Your email (so we can follow up)

Reply-to address — splitforms wires this so hitting reply goes back to the sender.

placeholder · you@example.com
§ 06Questions9 answered

Bug Report on EleventyFAQ.

Direct answers, no marketing fluff. Missing one? Email hello@splitforms.com.

01Does this bug report work on Eleventy?
Yes. The form is plain HTML with a single POST endpoint, so it runs on any Eleventy site without server-side code, plugins, or SDKs. Drop the snippet into a Eleventy page or component and submissions land in your splitforms dashboard.
02How much does the bug report cost on Eleventy?
Free for 500 submissions per month — no credit card, no trial. Pro is $5/mo for 5,000 submissions, and there's a one-time $59 3-year plan (15,000 submissions/mo for 36 months). The same pricing applies regardless of which framework hosts the form.
03Can I customize the fields?
Yes. The template ships with sensible defaults (short summary, severity, browser & os, steps to reproduce…) — add, remove, or rename any of them. Splitforms accepts whatever fields you POST.
04How does spam protection work on the bug report?
A hidden honeypot field catches dumb bots, and a tuned classifier scores the rest. You only see real submissions in your dashboard. No CAPTCHA, no friction for human users — and it works the same on Eleventy as on any other framework.
05Can I send the bug report submissions to Slack or Discord?
Yes. Webhooks are available on Starter and above, with auto-formatted payloads for Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp (via CallMeBot). Or send raw signed JSON to any URL — Zapier, n8n, your own server. Configure in the splitforms dashboard.
06Will it work on a static Eleventy site?
Yes — the form posts directly to splitforms from the browser, so no server is involved. Works on Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or any plain Apache host.
07Should I auto-detect browser / OS?
Yes — JavaScript can read navigator.userAgent and pre-fill hidden fields with browser name, version, OS, and screen size. The user doesn't see them; the engineer gets them. Saves 90% of 'what browser are you on?' replies.
08Can I integrate with Linear / GitHub / Sentry?
Yes — webhook the JSON. Linear and GitHub both accept inbound issue creation via API or Zapier. Sentry doesn't accept user-reported bugs as events but you can webhook to a Slack channel where the on-call engineer triages and creates the Sentry issue manually.
09How do I prevent abuse / spam in bug reports?
Public bug-report forms attract spam — hidden honeypot plus splitforms' classifier catches most. Require an email field; bots filling random emails get filtered by the classifier. For severe abuse, gate the form behind a logged-in user session.
§ 07Comparisonvs Web3Forms · vs Formspree

splitforms vs everything else.

Same drop-in API. More free submissions, Starter signed webhooks, MCP support no other backend has.

FeatureWeb3FormsFormspreesplitforms
Free monthly submissions25050500
Custom fields beyond contactYesPro tierFree
Webhooks (Slack / Discord)Pro tierPro tierFree, signed
AI / MCP submission inboxNoNoYes
Long-term plan (3-year flat)$59 every 3 years
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