Add --clear parameter to the build command

[mauricioschenkel]

I would like to have a --clear parameter in the build command (npx @11ty/eleventy). When this parameter is provided, the output folder (e.g.: _site) would be deleted before the build process starts.

This would be useful when running builds locally after making changes that modify the output path of one or more pages. Without deleting the existing output folder the old links continue to work, serving the previous version of the page.

I know that it is possible to achieve the same behavior by creating a simple script that deletes the folder and run the build command afterwards, but it would be nice to have it as a standard option and it seems to me that this is not so complicated to implement.

I’ve checked the documentation and existing discussions but couldn’t find anything related to this. Sorry if this has already been discussed or implemented.

Thanks in advance!

[Ryuno-Ki]

That's a veeery old request: #19

There's a plugin by @kentaroi called eleventy-plugin-clean that likely works.