Astro Sanity Minimal Starter

Demo Site

If you haven't heard about Astro yet you're missing out. This starter repo gives you a blog website with a headless CMS setup using Sanity.io.

Don't be fooled by the simplicity of this starter either. With excellent SEO built in, Astro's excellent developer environment, and performance best practices you're getting one of the best foundations for a personal blog with posts written in markdown. The reason for making such a bare bones starter in terms of styles is that it has what you need out of the box for SEO and site structure but it makes no assumptions about how you want it look and behave.

Sometimes starters can feel like they are giving us way too much and you'll spend a day picking apart half of the code to get to the setup you actually wanted. Want to use vanilla CSS instead of Tailwind or Scss? No problem!

Features

• A customizable headless CMS with Sanity.io
• Excellent SEO Built In
  • Open Graph Tags (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
  • User Declared Canonical URLs
  • RSS Feed
  • XML Sitemap
  • Robots.txt
  • JSON LD Schema
• Extremely minimal styles
• Performant Google Fonts Setup

Get Started

Watch my step-by-step tutorial on YouTube

Or

Follow the manual steps below:

Initial Sanity Setup

1. Create a repo from this template
2. If you don't have the Sanity CLI already run npm install -g @sanity/cli
3. Open a terminal from root folder of the project
4. cd sanity
5. sanity install
6. sanity init and follow the prompts (you will need to create a Sanity account if you haven't already)
7. Navigate to the astro folder
8. Rename .env.template to .env and
9. Replace the PUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_ID value with your token ID

Note: You will want to add http://localhost:3000 to your allowed CORS orgins in your Sanity project settings at https://manage.sanity.io

To run your Sanity Studio

1. Open a terminal located at the sanity folder
2. sanity install
3. sanity start
4. Your studio should be running on http://localhost:3333
5. Open http://localhost:3333 and copy the project ID from the Project info section

To run your Astro site

1. Open a terminal located at the astro folder
2. npm install
3. npm start
4. Your Astro site should be running on http://localhost:3000
5. npm run build to build to production locally