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# Joyful Fixations

> This template has been adapted for my needs. Please view the upstream if you wish to create a similar site.

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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
- [Karhdo's Blog](https://karhdo.dev) - Karhdo's Blog - Karhdo's Coding Adventure ([source code](https://github.com/Karhdo/karhdo.dev))
- [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.
- [homing.so](https://homing.so) - 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 ([source code](https://github.com/zS1m/nextjs-contrails))
- [dariuszwozniak.net](https://dariuszwozniak.net/) - Software development blog ([source code](https://github.com/dariusz-wozniak/dariuszwozniak.net-v2))
- [dreams.plus](https://dreams.plus) - Blog site for some thoughts and records for life and technology.
- [francisaguilar.co blog](https://francisaguilar.co) - Francis Aguilar's personal blog that talks about tech, fitness, and personal development.
- [Min71 Dev Blog](https://min71.dev) - Personal blog about Blockchain, Development and etc. ([source code](https://github.com/mingi3442/blog))
- [Bryce Yu's Blog](https://earayu.github.io/) - Bryce Yu's personal Blog about distributed system, database, and web development. ([source code](https://github.com/earayu/earayu.github.io))
- [Remote Startup Senpai Anime Series Website](https://remote-startup-senpai.com) - Landing page for the anime series Remote Startup Senpai.
- [Secret Base](https://www.jachsu.com/) - Jac Hsu's personal Blog.talks about tech, thought, and life in general.
- [Zsebinformatikus](https://www.zsebinformatikus.hu/) - The information superhighway guide blog.
- [Anton Morgunov's Blog](https://blog.ischemist.com/) - talking about science without oversimplifications or why theoretical and computational chemistry is cool.
- [Hans Blog](https://www.hansking.cn/) - Hans' personal blog, front-end technology, gallery and travel diary 中文. ([source code](https://github.com/hansking98/hans-nextjs-blog))
- [CuB3y0nd's Portfolio](https://www.cubeyond.net/) - CuB3y0nd‘s cyber security study notes「中文」
- [London Tech Talk](https://london-tech-talk.com/) - A podcast exploring technology trends and expatriate living experiences. - 日本語
- [CRUD Flow Blog](http://blog.ndamulelo.co.za/) - A technical blog about AI, Cloud Engineering, Data Science and Personal development
- [Trillium's Blog](https://trilliumsmith.com/) - Modified to render resume pdf on `/resume` page. ([source code](https://github.com/trillium/trilliumsmith.com))
- [Frank's Tech Blog](https://frank-tech-blog.vercel.app/) - Frank's personal blog about software development and technology. ([source code](https://github.com/frank-mendez/frank-blog))
- [Wujie's Blog: 旅行者计划](https://www.wujieli.com/) - Wujie's personal digital garden ([source code](https://github.com/wujieli0207/wujie-blog-next))
- [Xiaodong's Blog](https://blog.linxiaodong.com) - Xiaodong's personal blog about front-end technology, and life. 「中文」([source code](https://github.com/buxuku/buxuku.github.io))
- [Azurtelier.com](https://www.azurtelier.com/) - Amos's personal website for tech, music, AI illustrations, etc. [English/中文] ([Source code](https://github.com/AmosChenZixuan/Azurtelier.com))
- [JoshHaines.com](https://www.JoshHaines.com/) - Personal website for Josh Haines. ([source code](https://github.com/jdhaines/joshhaines))
- - [Jigu's Blog](https://animeirl.top) - Jigu's personal blog about tech, crypto, golang, and life. 「中文」
- [andrewsam.xyz](https://www.andrewsam.xyz/) - Andrew's Personal website using ShadCN, Prisma, MongoDB, Auth.js, Resume Page, Custom Experience timeline and technologies components. ([source code](https://github.com/andrew-sameh/andrewsam.xyz))
- [Rulli Damara Putra's Portfolio](https://www.damaraputra.my.id/) - Rully's personal blog and portfolio.
- [blog.taoluyuan.com 套路猿](https://blog.taoluyuan.com) - A personal tech blog that supports multi-theme switching. 「中英」
- [LyricsDecode.com](https://lyricsdecode.com) - A song lyrics website offering original lyrics, Romanisation, and English translations with customisable viewing options.
- [bmacharia.com](https://bmacharia.com/) - Benson Macharia's technical blog about Cybersecurity and IT Risk Management.
- [armujahid.me](https://armujahid.me/) - Abdul Rauf's personal blog about tech and random stuff.
- [leohuynh.dev](leohuynh.dev) - 🇻🇳 Leo's dev blog – stories, insights, and ideas. Add `/snippets`, `/books` pages, add `ProfileCard`, `CareerTimeline` components and many more.
- [OpenSats Blog](https://opensats.org/blog) - A 501(c)(3) public charity which aims to sustainably fund free and open-source projects. ([source code](https://github.com/OpenSats/website))
- [Schedles Blog](https://schedles.com/blog) - Social media scheduling tips, strategies, and product updates for content creators. ([Project Link](https://schedles.com))

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
- [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.
- [drakerossman.com](https://drakerossman.com/) - Drake Rossman's blog about NixOS, Rust, Software Architecture and Engineering Management, as well as general musings.
- [meamenu.com](https://www.meamenu.com) - Landing page and product blog starting from this template. It also uses [framer-motion](https://www.framer.com/motion) for animations, custom layout templates, [waline](https://waline.js.org/en/) for blog comments and [primereact](https://primereact.org/) forms [Ita]
- [giovanni.orciuolo.it](https://giovanni.orciuolo.it) - Giovanni Orciuolo's personal website, blog and everything nerd.

## 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, Emailoctopus and Beehiiv
  - 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)
- [Github alerts](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#alerts) via [remark-github-blockquote-alert](https://github.com/jaywcjlove/remark-github-blockquote-alert)
- 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
```

Please note, that if you are using Windows, you may need to run:

```bash
$env:PWD = $(Get-Location).Path
```

## 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

### GitHub Pages

A [`pages.yml`](.github/workflows/pages.yml) workflow is already provided. Simply select "GitHub Actions" in: `Settings > Pages > Build and deployment > Source`.

### 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.)

Run:

```sh
$ EXPORT=1 UNOPTIMIZED=1 yarn build
```

Then, deploy the generated `out` folder or run `npx serve out` it locally.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> If deploying with a URL base path, like https://example.org/myblog you need an extra `BASE_PATH` shell-var to the build command:
>
> ```sh
> $ EXPORT=1 UNOPTIMIZED=1 BASE_PATH=/myblog yarn build
> ```
>
> => In your code, `${process.env.BASE_PATH || ''}/robots.txt` will print `"/myblog/robots.txt"` in the `out` build (or only `/robots.txt` if `yarn dev`, ie: on localhost:3000)

> [!TIP]
> Alternatively to `UNOPTIMIZED=1`, 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.

Consider removing the following features that cannot be used in a static build:

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

## 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)

## 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)
