A blog by G.C. Marty

The source from my blog located at: gu.illau.me

Adapted from tailwind-astro-starting-blog.

Todo

• Review the social media sharing feature.
• Review the sizes of generated cover images.
• Stretched links on post cards in lists.
• Change the titles font.
• Refactor apps and talks pages to use the same code.
• For post titles, try to use the cover image as a dimmed background for the title.
• Restore OG meta data.
• Restore the estimated reading time feature.
• Implement a service worker strategy.
• Use local avatar instead of gravatar.

Internationalization

This template has support for i18n, it's set up for English as default. You can add more languages in the src/i18n/ui.ts file. It doesn't have support for dynamic language change, but it's easy to implement.

Extend / Customize

src/consts.ts contains a list of constants that you can customize to your liking, including the blog title, description, author, social media links, etc.

src/functions.ts contains a list of functions that changes the default behavior of the template, including default post sorting and exclude draft posts.

src/content/authors/default.mdx contains the default author information. You can add more authors by adding more .mdx files in the src/content/authors folder.

src/content/tags/default.mdx contains the default tag information. You can add more tags by adding more .mdx files in the src/content/tags folder.

src/content/config.ts contains all fields for author, blog and tags pages. Check what's required and what's not. You can also add more fields if you want to.

🧞 Commands

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
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

🐳 Docker Commands

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

Command	Action
docker build -t app:1.0.0 .	Build the Docker image for the Astro application.
docker run -p 80:4321 app:1.0.0	Run a Docker container with the built Astro application.
docker pull edwardb11/app:2.0.0	Download the Docker image from Docker Hub.