Cassidy's blog template

Hello, welcome. This is a blog ("blahg" is the proper spelling for Chicagoans) template. It's built with Astro, and uses TinaCMS to edit the content!

See the blahg

blahg.netlify.app

To use the template

• Connect to your chosen hosting provider (see Deploy to Netlify button below if you want to go that route, otherwise use the GitHub template button above and pick a different one)
• Make an account at tina.io
• Add your TinaCMS keys (see below)
• Update astro.config.mjs with your domain
• Edit src/config.js
• Add your URL in line 1 of public/robots.txt
• Add your links in src/components/Header.astro
• Update the intro in pages/about.md
• Edit the images in public/ (optional)
• Edit whatever tags you want in tina/config.js (optional)

After this, you can add your content to src/posts with Markdown files, or with TinaCMS by going to yoururl.com/admin!

And finally, please ping me (via social media, or in a GitHub Issue, or whatever) if you use this template! I would love to see your writing and subscribe to your RSS feed!

Run it yourself

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npx tinacms dev -c 'astro dev'	Manually run local server if the regular command doesn't work
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying

You go to localhost:4321/admin/index.html to see the CMS and use it. If you want to clone this for yourself, you'll need a .env.development file that has the following in it:

TINACLIENTID=<from tina.io>
TINATOKEN=<from tina.io>
TINASEARCH=<from tina.io>