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# Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog



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[![Deploy with Vercel](https://vercel.com/button)](https://vercel.com/new/git/external?repository-url=https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog)



This is a [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) blogging starter template. Version 2 is based on Next App directory with [React Server Component](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started/react-essentials#server-components) and uses [Contentlayer](https://www.contentlayer.dev/) to manage markdown content.



Probably the most feature-rich Next.js markdown blogging template out there. Easily configurable and customizable. Perfect as a replacement to existing Jekyll and Hugo individual blogs.



Check out the documentation below to get started.



Facing issues? Check the [FAQ page](https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog/wiki) and do a search on past issues. Feel free to open a new issue if none has been posted previously.



Feature request? Check the past discussions to see if it has been brought up previously. Otherwise, feel free to start a new discussion thread. All ideas are welcomed!



## Variations



__Note__: These are community contributed forks using different frameworks or with significant changes to the codebase - not officially supported.



Astro alternative - [Tailwind Astro Template](https://github.com/wanoo21/tailwind-astro-starting-blog).



Remix-run alternative - [Tailwind Remix-run Starter Blog Template](https://github.com/SangeetAgarwal/tailwind-remix-run-mdxjs-typescript-starter-blog).



Internationalization support - [Template with i18n](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog-i18n.vercel.app/) and [source code](https://github.com/PxlSyl/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog-i18n/tree/main).



## Examples V2



- [Demo Blog](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/) - this repo

- [My personal blog](https://www.timlrx.com) - modified to auto-generate blog posts with dates

- [ben.codes blog](https://ben.codes) - Benoit's personal blog about software development ([source code](https://github.com/bendotcodes/bendotcodes))

- [tsix blog](https://tsix.top) - A front-end engineer is used to record some knowledge points in work and study _中文_

- [SOTO's Blog](https://www.atksoto.com/) - A more personalized personal website upgraded from V1 ([source code](https://github.com/acsoto/soto-blog-nextjs))

- [Prabhu's Blog](https://prabhukirankonda.vercel.app) - Prabhu's Personal website with blog ([source code](https://github.com/prabhukiran8790/prabhukirankonda))

- [Rabby Hasan's Blog](https://blog.rabbyhasan.com.bd/) - Rabby Hasan's personal blog about full stack development with cloud ([source code](https://github.com/rabbyalone/myblog))

- [enscribe.dev](https://enscribe.dev) - enscribe's personal blog; cybersecurity shenanigans, frontend webdev, etc. ([source code](https://github.com/jktrn/enscribe.dev))

- [dalelarroder.com](https://dalelarroder.com) - Dale Larroder's personal website upgraded from V1 ([source code](https://github.com/dlarroder/dalelarroder))

- [thetalhatahir.com](https://www.thetalhatahir.com)  - Talha Tahir's personal blog. Added article thumbnails, linkedIn card, Beautiful hero content, technology emoticons.

- [hauhau.cn](https://www.hauhau.cn) - Homing's personal blog about the stuff he's learning ([source code](https://github.com/hominsu/blog))

- [zS1m's Blog](https://contrails.space) - zS1m's personal blog for recording and sharing daily learning technical content _中文_

- [dariuszwozniak.net](https://dariuszwozniak.net/) - Software development blog

  

Using the template? Feel free to create a PR and add your blog to this list.



## Examples V1



[v1-blogs-showcase.webm](https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog/assets/28362229/2124c81f-b99d-4431-839c-347e01a2616c)



Thanks to the community of users and contributors to the template! We are no longer accepting new blog listings over here. If you have updated from version 1 to version 2, feel free to remove your blog from this list and add it to the one above.



- [Aloisdg's cookbook](https://tambouille.vercel.app/) - with pictures and recipes!

- [GautierArcin's demo with next translate](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog-seven.vercel.app/) - includes translation of mdx posts, [source code](https://github.com/GautierArcin/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog/tree/demo/next-translate)

- [David Levai's digital garden](https://davidlevai.com/) - customized design and added email subscriptions

- [Leo's Blog](https://leohuynh.dev) - Tuan Anh Huynh's personal site. Add Snippets Page, Author Profile Card, Image Lightbox, ...

- [thvu.dev](https://thvu.dev) - Added `mdx-embed`, view count, reading minutes and more.

- [irvin.dev](https://www.irvin.dev/) - Irvin Lin's personal site. Added YouTube embedding.

- [KirillSo.com](https://www.kirillso.com/) - Personal blog & website.

- [slightlysharpe.com](https://slightlysharpe.com) - [Tincre's](https://tincre.com) main company blog

- [blog.b00st.com](https://blog.b00st.com) - [b00st.com's](https://b00st.com) main music promotion blog

- [astrosaurus.me](https://astrosaurus.me/) - Ephraim Atta-Duncan's Personal Blog

- [dhanrajsp.me](https://dhanrajsp.me/) - Dhanraj's personal site and blog.

- [blog.r00ks.io](https://blog.r00ks.io/) - Austin Rooks's personal blog ([source code](https://github.com/Austionian/blog.r00ks)).

- [honghong.me](https://honghong.me) - Tszhong's personal website ([source code](https://github.com/tszhong0411/home))

- [marceloformentao.dev](https://marceloformentao.dev) - Marcelo Formentão personal website ([source code](https://github.com/marceloavf/marceloformentao.dev)).

- [abiraja.com](https://www.abiraja.com/) - with a [runnable JS code snippet component!](https://www.abiraja.com/blog/querying-solana-blockchain)

- [bpiggin.com](https://www.bpiggin.com) - Ben Piggin's personal blog

- [maqib.cn](https://maqib.cn) - A blog of Chinese front-end developers 狂奔小马的博客 ([源码](https://github.com/maqi1520/nextjs-tailwind-blog))

- [ambilena.com](https://ambilena.com/) - Electronic Music Blog & imprint for upcoming musicians.

- [0xchai.io](https://0xchai.io) - Chai's personal blog

- [techipedia](https://techipedia.vercel.app) - Simple blogging progressive web app with custom installation button and top progress bar

- [reubence.com](https://reubence.com) - Reuben Rapose's Digital Garden

- [axolo.co/blog](https://axolo.co/blog) - Engineering management news & axolo.co updates (with image preview for article in the home page)

- [musing.vercel.app](https://musing.vercel.app/) - Parth Desai's personal blog ([source code](https://github.com/pycoder2000/blog))

- [onyourmental.com](https://www.onyourmental.com/) - [Curtis Warcup's](https://github.com/Cwarcup) website for the On Your Mental Podcast ([source code](https://github.com/Cwarcup/on-your-mental))

- [cwarcup.com](https://www.cwarcup.com/) - Curtis Warcup's personal website and blog ([source code](https://github.com/Cwarcup/personal-blog)).

- [ondiek-elijah.me](https://www.ondiek-elijah.me/) - Ondiek Elijah's website and blog ([source code](https://github.com/Dev-Elie/ondiek-elijah)).

- [jmalvarez.dev](https://www.jmalvarez.dev/) - José Miguel Álvarez's personal blog ([source code](https://github.com/josemiguel-alvarez/nextjs-blog))

- [justingosses.com](https://justingosses.com/) - Justin Gosses's personal website and blog ([source code](https://github.com/JustinGOSSES/justingosses-website))

- [https://bitoflearning-9a57.fly.dev/](https://bitoflearning-9a57.fly.dev/) - Sangeet Agarwal's personal blog, replatformed to [remix](https://remix.run/remix) using the [indie stack](https://github.com/remix-run/indie-stack) ([source code](https://github.com/SangeetAgarwal/bitoflearning))

- [raphaelchelly.com](https://www.raphaelchelly.com/) - Raphaël Chelly's personal website and blog ([source code](https://github.com/raphaelchelly/raph_www))

- [kaveh.page](https://kaveh.page) - Kaveh Tehrani's personal blog. Added tags directory, profile card, time-to-read on posts directory, etc.



## Motivation



I wanted to port my existing blog to Nextjs and Tailwind CSS but there was no easy out of the box template to use so I decided to create one. Design is adapted from [Tailwindlabs blog](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/blog.tailwindcss.com).



I wanted it to be nearly as feature-rich as popular blogging templates like [beautiful-jekyll](https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll) and [Hugo Academic](https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules) but with the best of React's ecosystem and current web development's best practices.



## Features



- Next.js with Typescript

- [Contentlayer](https://www.contentlayer.dev/) to manage content logic

- Easy styling customization with [Tailwind 3.0](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v3) and primary color attribute

- [MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!](https://mdxjs.com/)

- Near perfect lighthouse score - [Lighthouse report](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230805_BiDcBQ_4H7)

- Lightweight, 85kB first load JS

- Mobile-friendly view

- Light and dark theme

- Font optimization with [next/font](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/components/font)

- Integration with [pliny](https://github.com/timlrx/pliny) that provides:

  - Multiple analytics options including [Umami](https://umami.is/), [Plausible](https://plausible.io/), [Simple Analytics](https://simpleanalytics.com/), Posthog and Google Analytics

  - Comments via [Giscus](https://github.com/laymonage/giscus), [Utterances](https://github.com/utterance/utterances) or Disqus

  - Newsletter API and component with support for Mailchimp, Buttondown, Convertkit, Klaviyo, Revue, and Emailoctopus

  - Command palette search with [Kbar](https://github.com/timc1/kbar) or Algolia

- Server-side syntax highlighting with line numbers and line highlighting via [rehype-prism-plus](https://github.com/timlrx/rehype-prism-plus)

- Math display supported via [KaTeX](https://katex.org/)

- Citation and bibliography support via [rehype-citation](https://github.com/timlrx/rehype-citation)

- Automatic image optimization via [next/image](https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization)

- Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page

- Support for multiple authors

- 3 different blog layouts

- 2 different blog listing layouts

- Support for nested routing of blog posts

- Projects page

- Preconfigured security headers

- SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!



## Sample posts



- [A markdown guide](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/github-markdown-guide)

- [Learn more about images in Next.js](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/guide-to-using-images-in-nextjs)

- [A tour of math typesetting](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/deriving-ols-estimator)

- [Simple MDX image grid](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/pictures-of-canada)

- [Example of long prose](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/the-time-machine)

- [Example of Nested Route Post](https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/nested-route/introducing-multi-part-posts-with-nested-routing)



## Quick Start Guide



1. Clone the repo



```bash

npx degit 'timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog'

```



2. Personalize `siteMetadata.js` (site related information)

3. Modify the content security policy in `next.config.js` if you want to use

   other analytics provider or a commenting solution other than giscus.

4. Personalize `authors/default.md` (main author)

5. Modify `projectsData.ts`

6. Modify `headerNavLinks.ts` to customize navigation links

7. Add blog posts

8. Deploy on Vercel



## Installation



```bash

yarn

```



## Development



First, run the development server:



```bash

yarn dev

```



Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) with your browser to see the result.



Edit the layout in `app` or content in `data`. With live reloading, the pages auto-updates as you edit them.



## 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` - tailwind configuration and 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](https://github.com/PrismJS/prism-themes).



`contentlayer.config.ts` - configuration for Contentlayer, including definition of content sources and MDX plugins used. See [Contentlayer documentation](https://www.contentlayer.dev/docs/getting-started) for more information.



`components/MDXComponents.js` - pass your own JSX code or React component by specifying it over here. You can then use them directly in the `.mdx` or `.md` file. By default, a custom link, `next/image` component, table of contents component and Newsletter form are passed down. Note that the components should be default exported to avoid [existing issues with Next.js](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/51593).



`layouts` - main templates used in pages:



- There are currently 3 post layouts available: `PostLayout`, `PostSimple` and `PostBanner`. `PostLayout` is the default 2 column layout with meta and author information. `PostSimple` is a simplified version of `PostLayout`, while `PostBanner` features a banner image.

- There are 2 blog listing layouts: `ListLayout`, the layout used in version 1 of the template with a search bar and `ListLayoutWithTags`, currently used in version 2, which omits the search bar but includes a sidebar with information on the tags.



`app` - pages to route to. Read the [Next.js documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app) 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.



## Post



Content is modelled using [Contentlayer](https://www.contentlayer.dev/), which allows you to define your own content schema and use it to generate typed content objects. See [Contentlayer documentation](https://www.contentlayer.dev/docs/getting-started) for more information.



### Frontmatter



Frontmatter follows [Hugo's standards](https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/).



Please refer to `contentlayer.config.ts` for an up to date list of supported fields. The following fields are supported:



```

title (required)

date (required)

tags (optional)

lastmod (optional)

draft (optional)

summary (optional)

images (optional)

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 Nexjs 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

---

```



## Deploy



**Vercel**  

The easiest way to deploy the template is to deploy on [Vercel](https://vercel.com). Check out the [Next.js deployment documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploying) for more details.



**Netlify**

[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/)’s Next.js runtime configures enables key Next.js functionality on your website without the need for additional configurations. Netlify generates serverless functions that will handle Next.js functionalities such as server-side rendered (SSR) pages, incremental static regeneration (ISR), `next/images`, etc.



See [Next.js on Netlify](https://docs.netlify.com/integrations/frameworks/next-js/overview/#next-js-runtime) for suggested configuration values and more details.



**Static hosting services / GitHub Pages / S3 / Firebase etc.**



1. Add `output: 'export'` in `next.config.js`. See [static exports documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploying/static-exports#configuration) for more information.

2. Comment out `headers()` from `next.config.js`.

3. Add `unoptimized: true` to the `images` key in `next.config.js`:



   Alternatively, to continue using `next/image`, you can use an alternative image optimization provider such as Imgix, Cloudinary or Akamai. See [image optimization documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploying/static-exports#image-optimization) for more details.



4. Remove `api` folder and components which call the server-side function such as the Newsletter component. Not technically required and the site will build successfully, but the APIs cannot be used as they are server-side functions.

5. Run `yarn build`. The generated static content is in the `out` folder.

6. Deploy the `out` folder to your hosting service of choice or run `npx serve out` to view the website locally.



__Note__: Deploying on Github pages require addition modifications to the base path. Please refer to the FAQ for more information.



## Frequently Asked Questions



- [How can I add a custom MDX component?](/faq/custom-mdx-component.md)

- [How can I customize the `kbar` search?](/faq/customize-kbar-search.md)

- [How do I deploy on Github pages?](/faq/github-pages-deployment.md)



## Support



Using the template? Support this effort by giving a star on GitHub, sharing your own blog and giving a shoutout on Twitter or becoming a project [sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/timlrx).



## Licence



[MIT](https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog/blob/main/LICENSE) © [Timothy Lin](https://www.timlrx.com)