This was a theme for Nextjs that I developed for my personal blog. Due to change in blogging platform this has been abandoned. Feel free to fork and use any of the code.

Credits

• Timothy For designing The original template of this blog.

Google Lighthouse Performance Metrics

The original template of this blog is designed by Parth Desai and can be found here Check out the starter documentation or fork this project and start building your own blog!

Features

• Easy styling customization with Tailwind 3.0 and primary color attribute
• Near perfect lighthouse score - Lighthouse report
• Lightweight, 45kB first load JS, uses Preact in production build
• Mobile-friendly view
• Supports Google Analytics
• MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!
• Server-side syntax highlighting with line numbers and line highlighting via rehype-prism-plus
• Automatic image optimization via next/image
• Flexible data retrieval with mdx-bundler
• Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page
• Table of content component
• Support for nested routing of blog posts
• Preconfigured security headers
• SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!

Installation

npm install

Development

First, run the development server:

npm start

or

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

You can start editing the page by modifying pages/index.js. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.

Extend / Customize

data/siteMetadata.js - contains most of the site related information which should be modified for a user's need.

data/authors/default.md - default author information (required). Additional authors can be added as files in data/authors.

data/projectsData.js - data used to generate styled card on the projects page.

data/headerNavLinks.js - navigation links.

data/logo.svg - replace with your own logo.

data/blog - replace with your own blog posts.

public/static - store assets such as images and favicons.

tailwind.config.js and css/tailwind.css - contain the tailwind stylesheet which can be modified to change the overall look and feel of the site.

css/prism.css - controls the styles associated with the code blocks. Feel free to customize it and use your preferred prismjs theme e.g. prism themes.

components/social-icons - to add other icons, simply copy an svg file from Simple Icons and map them in index.js. Other icons use heroicons.

components/MDXComponents.js - pass your own JSX code or React component by specifying it over here. You can then call them directly in the .mdx or .md file. By default, a custom link and image component is passed.

layouts - main templates used in pages.

pages - pages to route to. Read the Next.js documentation for more information.

next.config.js - configuration related to Next.js. You need to adapt the Content Security Policy if you want to load scripts, images etc. from other domains.

Compose

Run node ./scripts/compose.js to bootstrap a new post.

Follow the interactive prompt to generate a post with pre-filled front matter.

Deploy

Vercel
The easiest way to deploy the template is to use the Vercel Platform from the creators of Next.js. Check out the Next.js deployment documentation for more details.

Netlify / GitHub Pages / Firebase etc.
As the template uses next/image for image optimization, additional configurations have to be made to deploy on other popular static hosting websites like Netlify or GitHub Pages. An alternative image optimization provider such as Imgix, Cloudinary or Akamai has to be used. Alternatively, replace the next/image component with a standard <img> tag. See next/image documentation for more details.

The API routes used in the newsletter component cannot be used in a static site export. You will need to use a form API endpoint provider and substitute the route in the newsletter component accordingly. Other hosting platforms such as Netlify also offer alternative solutions - please refer to their docs for more information.

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.