Tailwind CSS Blog

Features

• Easy styling customization with Tailwind 3.0 and primary color attribute
• Near perfect lighthouse score - Lighthouse report
• Lightweight, 45kB first load JS, uses Preact in production build
• Mobile-friendly view
• Light and dark theme
• Self-hosted font with Fontsource
• Supports plausible, simple analytics and google analytics
• MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!
• Server-side syntax highlighting with line numbers and line highlighting via rehype-prism-plus
• Math display supported via KaTeX
• Citation and bibliography support via rehype-citation
• Automatic image optimization via next/image
• Flexible data retrieval with 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 and revue
• Supports giscus, utterances or disqus
• Projects page
• Preconfigured security headers
• SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!

Sample posts

• A markdown guide
• Learn more about images in Next.js
• A tour of math typesetting
• Simple MDX image grid
• Example of long prose
• Example of Nested Route Post

Quick Start Guide

1. TypeScript and Contentlayer (alpha)

npx degit timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog#contentlayer

or JS (official support)

npx degit https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.git

or with TypeScript (community support)

npx degit timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog#typescript

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

npm install

Development

First, run the development server:

npm start

or

npm run dev

Open 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/blog - 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.

components/social-icons - to add other icons, simply copy an svg file from Simple Icons and map them in index.js. Other icons use heroicons.

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 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.

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://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/introducing-tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog
---

Compose

Run node ./scripts/compose.js to bootstrap a new post.

Follow the interactive prompt to generate a post with pre-filled front matter.

Licence

MIT © Timothy Lin