This repository builds the personal website justingosses.com. The website holds a blog, about me section, links to side projects, etc. This repository & website replace an existing 6 year old WordPress version of justingosses.com
Next.js & Tailwind CSS deployed on Azure static web apps
npm installFirst, run the development server:
npm startor
npm run devOpen 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.
If you get errors like npm ERR! Failed at the tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog@1.5.0 dev script 'next dev'. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. then check if you're using system node.js or the latest version.
If you're using nvm, you can run nvm list to see what version of node your terminal window is running.
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.
Frontmatter follows Hugo's standards.
Currently 7 fields are supported.
title (required)
date (required)
tags (required, can be empty array)
lastmod (optional)
draft (optional)
summary (optional)
images (optional, if none provided defaults to socialBanner in siteMetadata config)
authors (optional list which should correspond to the file names in `data/authors`. Uses `default` if none is specified)
layout (optional list which should correspond to the file names in `data/layouts`)
canonicalUrl (optional, canonical url for the post for SEO)
Here's an example of a post's frontmatter:
---
title: 'Introducing Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog'
date: '2021-01-12'
lastmod: '2021-01-18'
tags: ['next-js', 'tailwind', 'guide']
draft: false
summary: 'Looking for a performant, out of the box template, with all the best in web technology to support your blogging needs? Checkout the Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog template.'
images: ['/static/images/canada/mountains.jpg', '/static/images/canada/toronto.jpg']
authors: ['default', 'sparrowhawk']
layout: PostLayout
canonicalUrl: https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/introducing-tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog
---
Run node ./scripts/compose.js to bootstrap a new post.
Follow the interactive prompt to generate a post with pre-filled front matter.
- run
npm run build. This runs the scriptnext build && next exportas defined in package.json and should output static website into a folder named 'out'. - run
git add * - run
git commit -m updates - run
git push origin main<= This will kick off a github actions script that should deploy the page to Azure Static Web Apps
This website is a fork of the Tailwind Nextjs Starter blog template. It uses Next.js to build the HTML from static markdown and Tailwind CSS to handle the styling. It is a next.js based replacement for the more well known, at least as of 2022, Jekyll and Hugo individual blogs. The basic premise is write markdown for the content and only mess with CSS and JavaScript when you want to do so.
Facing issues? Check the FAQ page and do a search on past issues. Feel free to open a new issue if none has been posted previously.
- 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
- Light and dark theme
- Self-hosted font with Fontsource
- Supports plausible, simple analytics and google analytics
- MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!
- Server-side syntax highlighting with line numbers and line highlighting via rehype-prism-plus
- Math display supported via KaTeX
- Citation and bibliography support via rehype-citation
- Automatic image optimization via next/image
- Flexible data retrieval with mdx-bundler
- Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page
- Support for multiple authors
- Blog templates
- TOC component
- Support for nested routing of blog posts
- Newsletter component with support for mailchimp, buttondown, convertkit and klaviyo
- Supports giscus, utterances or disqus
- Projects page
- Preconfigured security headers
- SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!
Using the template? Support their effort by giving it a star on GitHub, sharing your own blog and giving a shoutout on Twitter or becoming a project sponsor.
Nextjs Tailwind Starter Blog template has License of MIT © Timothy Lin
Any other code by JustinGosses also has MIT license. Content copyright Justin Gosses