Suppose you have a Figma file that serves as your online portfolio. It looks something like this:
https://www.figma.com/file/gnziUDsg08y4397dgz/File-Name-%E2%80%A2-Portfolio?node-id=2%4B517Gross. No one wants to open that.
No matter, because you are a web master and happen to run your own website on Eleventy and host it on Netlify. You can use redirects to share a portfolio URL like yourname.com/work that then redirects to the Figma link.
Here’s now.
Create a file called _redirects in the src of your Eleventy project. You read that right: without a file extension. Then fill that file with redirects in the following syntax:
/old-url /new-url
/old-blog/some-post /new-blog/some-postFor your Figma use-case that might look like:
/work https://www.figma.com/file/gnziUDsg08y4397dgz/File-Name-%E2%80%A2-Portfolio?node-id=2%4B517That’s it. Now we just need to turn it on.
Eleventy ignores files and folders by default. You need to tell it to pass through the _redirects file by leaving instructions in the .eleventy.js file like so:
config.addPassthroughCopy("src/_redirects");Here are some more thorough resources that helped me: