TemplateLayoutPathResolver directory does not exist for default: _includes

[3goats]

Hi,

Im using the skeleventy starter project and have noticed that the Eleventy config file is called eleventy.config.js as oppose .eleventy.js as per the docs. When I run 'npm run dev' my site compiles and runs fine. However, If I rename my eleventy.config.js to .eleventy.js or use the eleventy command to build, I get the following error:

npx eleventy 
Problem writing Eleventy templates: (more in DEBUG output)
> TemplateLayoutPathResolver directory does not exist for default: _includes

`Error` was thrown:
    Error: TemplateLayoutPathResolver directory does not exist for default: _includes
        at TemplateLayoutPathResolver.findFileName (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateLayoutPathResolver.js:96:13)
        at TemplateLayoutPathResolver.init (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateLayoutPathResolver.js:61:28)
        at new TemplateLayoutPathResolver (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateLayoutPathResolver.js:15:10)
        at new TemplateLayout (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateLayout.js:15:24)
        at Function.getTemplate (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateLayout.js:38:16)
        at Template.getData (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/Template.js:219:37)
        at async Template.getTemplateMapEntries (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/Template.js:681:16)
        at async TemplateMap.add (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateMap.js:32:21)
        at async Promise.all (index 5)
        at async TemplateWriter._createTemplateMap (/Users/cbourne/development/11ty-hype/node_modules/@11ty/eleventy/src/TemplateWriter.js:132:5)
Wrote 0 files in 0.17 seconds (v0.10.0)

My eleventy.config.js looks like this:

const htmlmin = require("html-minifier")

module.exports = eleventyConfig => {

    // Add a readable date formatter filter to Nunjucks
    eleventyConfig.addFilter("dateDisplay", require("./filters/dates.js"))

    // Add a HTML timestamp formatter filter to Nunjucks
    eleventyConfig.addFilter("htmlDateDisplay", require("./filters/timestamp.js"))

    // Minify our HTML
    eleventyConfig.addTransform("htmlmin", (content, outputPath) => {
        if ( outputPath.endsWith(".html") )
        {
            let minified = htmlmin.minify(content, {
                useShortDoctype: true,
                removeComments: true,
                collapseWhitespace: true
            })
            return minified
        }
        return content
    })

    // Collections
    eleventyConfig.addCollection('blog', collection => {

        const blogs = collection.getFilteredByTag('blog')

        for( let i = 0; i < blogs.length; i++ ) {

            const prevPost = blogs[i - 1]
            const nextPost = blogs[i + 1]

            blogs[i].data["prevPost"] = prevPost
            blogs[i].data["nextPost"] = nextPost

        }

        return blogs.reverse()

    })

    // Layout aliases
    eleventyConfig.addLayoutAlias('default', 'layouts/default.njk')
    eleventyConfig.addLayoutAlias('post', 'layouts/post.njk')

    // Include our static assets
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("css")
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("js")
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("images")
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("animations")
    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("robots.txt")

    return {
        templateFormats: ["md", "njk"],
        markdownTemplateEngine: 'njk',
        htmlTemplateEngine: 'njk',
        passthroughFileCopy: true,

        dir: {
            input: 'site',
            output: 'dist',
            includes: 'includes',
            data: 'globals'
        }
    }     
}

And my directory structure looks like this:

├── README.md
├── _site
│   ├── css
│   │   ├── main.css
│   │   └── main.min.css
│   └── images
│       ├── blog
│       │   ├── author.jpg
│       │   ├── post-1.jpg
│       │   ├── post-2.jpg
│       │   └── post-3.jpg
│       ├── favicon.ico
│       ├── icons
│       │   └── icon-library.svg
│       ├── logo
│       │   └── logo.svg
│       └── meta
│           ├── og.jpg
│           └── twitter.jpg
├── css
│   ├── main.css
│   └── main.min.css
├── eleventy.config.js
├── filters
│   ├── dates.js
│   └── timestamp.js
├── images
│   ├── blog
│   │   ├── author.jpg
│   │   ├── post-1.jpg
│   │   ├── post-2.jpg
│   │   └── post-3.jpg
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── icons
│   │   └── icon-library.svg
│   ├── logo
│   │   └── logo.svg
│   └── meta
│       ├── og.jpg
│       └── twitter.jpg
├── mix-manifest.json
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── site
│   ├── 404.njk
│   ├── about.njk
│   ├── blog
│   │   ├── blog-4.md
│   │   ├── blog.json
│   │   ├── post-1.md
│   │   ├── post-2.md
│   │   └── post-3.md
│   ├── blog.njk
│   ├── contact.njk
│   ├── globals
│   │   ├── helpers.js
│   │   ├── navigation.json
│   │   └── site.json
│   ├── includes
│   │   ├── components
│   │   │   ├── footer.njk
│   │   │   ├── header.njk
│   │   │   ├── logo.njk
│   │   │   ├── mobile-nav.njk
│   │   │   ├── nav.njk
│   │   │   ├── social-icons.njk
│   │   │   └── social-meta.njk
│   │   └── layouts
│   │       ├── default.njk
│   │       └── post.njk
│   ├── index.njk
│   ├── robots.njk
│   ├── sitemap.njk
│   └── tags.njk
├── src
│   └── animation_script_inc.njk
├── tailwind.config.js
├── webpack.mix.js
└── www
    └── animation_script_inc
        └── index.html

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

[3goats]

OK, so doing this eleventy --config=./eleventy.config.js seems to resolve the issue. However, it seems renaming the config file to .eleventy.js means it still doesn't get found by default.

[zachleat]

I believe this error happens when you use the non-default includes folder (e.g. includes in your case) and you aren’t pointing to the --config file. So we look for the default _includes which doesn’t exist?

This is about Eleventy not knowing where your config file is, right?

[zachleat]

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[Hestre-M]

hi i am having this issue when i use eleventy within a workspace of a mono repo