https://github.com/yugasun/blog
Yuga Sun's Blog
https://github.com/yugasun/blog
blog mdx nextjs tailwindcss vercel
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Yuga Sun's Blog
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/yugasun/blog
- Owner: yugasun
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-01-08T08:46:09.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-14T10:29:09.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-14T11:36:25.394Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: blog, mdx, nextjs, tailwindcss, vercel
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://yugasun.com
- Size: 2.09 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Yuga Sun's Blog
[](https://vercel.com/new/git/external?repository-url=https://github.com/yugasun/blog)
This is a [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) blogging starter template. Probably the most feature-rich Next.js markdown blogging template out there. Comes out of the box configured with the latest technologies to make technical writing a breeze. Easily configurable and customizable. Perfect as a replacement to existing Jekyll and Hugo individual blogs.
Check out the documentation below to get started.
## 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
- Easy styling customization with [Tailwind 3.0](https://tailwindcss.com) and primary color attribute
- Near perfect lighthouse score - [Lighthouse report](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/221104_AiDc59_4WF/)
- Lightweight, 45kB first load JS, uses Preact in production build
- Mobile-friendly view
- Light and dark theme
- Self-hosted font with [Fontsource](https://fontsource.org/)
- Supports [plausible](https://plausible.io/), [simple analytics](https://simpleanalytics.com/) and google analytics
- [MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!](https://mdxjs.com/)
- 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)
- Flexible data retrieval with [mdx-bundler](https://github.com/kentcdodds/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, klaviyo, revue, and emailoctopus
- Supports [giscus](https://github.com/laymonage/giscus), [utterances](https://github.com/utterance/utterances) or disqus
- Projects page
- Preconfigured security headers
- SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!
## Quick Start Guide
1. Git clone project `git clone https://github.com/yugasun/blog`
2. Personalize `siteMetadata.js` (site related information)
3. Modify the content security policy in `next.config.js` if you want to use
any analytics provider or a commenting solution other than giscus.
4. Personalize `authors/default.md` (main author)
5. Modify `projectsData.js`
6. Modify `headerNavLinks.js` to customize navigation links
7. Add blog posts
8. Deploy on Vercel
## Installation
```bash
pnpm install
```
## Development
First, run the development server:
```bash
pnpm start
```
or
```bash
pnpm run dev
```
Open [http://localhost:3000](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.
## 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/post` - 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](https://github.com/PrismJS/prism-themes).
`components/social-icons` - to add other icons, simply copy an svg file from [Simple Icons](https://simpleicons.org/) and map them in `index.js`. Other icons use [heroicons](https://heroicons.com/).
`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](https://nextjs.org/docs) 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
### Frontmatter
Frontmatter follows [Hugo's standards](https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/).
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 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://blog.yugasun/post/serverless-advise
---
```
### Compose
Run `node ./scripts/compose.js` to bootstrap a new post.
Follow the interactive prompt to generate a post with pre-filled front matter.
## Deploy
**Vercel**
The easiest way to deploy the template is to use the [Vercel Platform](https://vercel.com) from the creators of Next.js. Check out the [Next.js deployment documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment) for more details.
## Licence
MIT