.gitignore

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ public/sitemap.xml
 # production
 /build
 *.xml
+# rss feed
+/public/index.xml 
 
 # misc
 .DS_Store

README.md

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ I wanted it to be nearly as feature-rich as popular blogging templates like [bea
 - Automatic image optimization via [next/image](https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization)
 - Flexible data retrieval with [next-mdx-remote](https://github.com/hashicorp/next-mdx-remote)
 - Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page
+- Support for nested routing of blog posts
 - Projects page
 - SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!
 
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ I wanted it to be nearly as feature-rich as popular blogging templates like [bea
 - [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
 

components/Tag.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import Link from 'next/link'
-import { kebabCase } from '@/lib/utils'
+import kebabCase from '@/lib/utils/kebabCase'
 
 const Tag = ({ text }) => {
   return (

data/blog/introducing-tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.mdx

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: 'Introducing Tailwind Nexjs Starter Blog'
 date: '2021-01-12'
-lastmod: '2021-01-18'
+lastmod: '2021-05-08'
 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.'
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ I wanted it to be nearly as feature-rich as popular blogging templates like [bea
 - Automatic image optimization via [next/image](https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization)
 - Flexible data retrieval with [next-mdx-remote](https://github.com/hashicorp/next-mdx-remote)
 - Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page
+- Support for nested routing of blog posts
 - SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!
 
 ## Sample posts
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ I wanted it to be nearly as feature-rich as popular blogging templates like [bea
 - [A tour of math typesetting](/blog/deriving-ols-estimator)
 - [Simple MDX image grid](/blog/pictures-of-canada)
 - [Example of long prose](/blog/the-time-machine)
+- [Example of Nested Route Post](/blog/nested-route/introducing-multi-part-posts-with-nested-routing)
 
 ## Quick Start Guide
 

data/blog/nested-route/introducing-multi-part-posts-with-nested-routing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: Introducing Multi-part Posts with Nested Routing
+date: '2021-05-02'
+tags: ['multi-author', 'next-js', 'feature']
+draft: false
+summary: 'The blog template supports posts in nested sub-folders. This can be used to group posts of similar content e.g. a multi-part course. This post is itself an example of a nested route!'
+---
+
+# Nested Routes
+
+The blog template supports posts in nested sub-folders. This helps in organisation and can be used to group posts of similar content e.g. a multi-part series. This post is itself an example of a nested route! It's located in the `/data/blog/nested-route` folder.
+
+## How
+
+Simplify create multiple folders inside the main `/data/blog` folder and add your `.md`/`.mdx` files to them. You can even create something like `/data/blog/nested-route/deeply-nested-route/my-post.md`
+
+We use Next.js catch all routes to handle the routing and path creations.
+
+## Use Cases
+
+Here's some reasons to use nested routes
+
+- More logical content organisation (blogs will still be displayed based on the created date)
+- Multi-part posts
+- Different sub-routes for each author
+- Internationalization (though it would be recommended to use [Next.js built in i8n routing](https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/i18n-routing))
+
+## Note
+
+- The previous/next post links at bottom of the template is currently sorted by date. One could explore modifying the template to refer the reader to the previous/next post in the series, rather than by date.

lib/mdx.js

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
+import MDXComponents from '@/components/MDXComponents'
 import fs from 'fs'
 import matter from 'gray-matter'
-import visit from 'unist-util-visit'
+import renderToString from 'next-mdx-remote/render-to-string'
 import path from 'path'
 import readingTime from 'reading-time'
-import renderToString from 'next-mdx-remote/render-to-string'
-
-import MDXComponents from '@/components/MDXComponents'
+import visit from 'unist-util-visit'
 import imgToJsx from './img-to-jsx'
+import getAllFilesRecursively from './utils/files'
 
 const root = process.cwd()
 
@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ const tokenClassNames = {
   comment: 'text-gray-400 italic',
 }
 
-export async function getFiles(type) {
-  return fs.readdirSync(path.join(root, 'data', type))
+export function getFiles(type) {
+  const prefixPaths = path.join(root, 'data', type)
+  const files = getAllFilesRecursively(prefixPaths)
+  // Only want to return blog/path and ignore root
+  return files.map(file => file.slice(prefixPaths.length + 1))
 }
 
 export function formatSlug(slug) {
@@ -39,8 +42,8 @@ export function dateSortDesc(a, b) {
 }
 
 export async function getFileBySlug(type, slug) {
-  const mdxPath = path.join(root, 'data', type, `${slug}.mdx`)
-  const mdPath = path.join(root, 'data', type, `${slug}.md`)
+  const mdxPath = path.join(root, 'data', type, `${slug.join('/')}.mdx`)
+  const mdPath = path.join(root, 'data', type, `${slug.join('/')}.md`)
   const source = fs.existsSync(mdxPath)
     ? fs.readFileSync(mdxPath, 'utf8')
     : fs.readFileSync(mdPath, 'utf8')
@@ -86,16 +89,19 @@ export async function getFileBySlug(type, slug) {
   }
 }
 
-export async function getAllFilesFrontMatter(type) {
-  const files = fs.readdirSync(path.join(root, 'data', type))
+export async function getAllFilesFrontMatter(folder) {
+  const prefixPaths = path.join(root, 'data', folder)
+
+  const files = getAllFilesRecursively(prefixPaths)
 
   const allFrontMatter = []
 
   files.forEach((file) => {
-    const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, 'data', type, file), 'utf8')
+    const fileName = file.slice(prefixPaths.length + 1)
+    const source = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8')
     const { data } = matter(source)
     if (data.draft !== true) {
-      allFrontMatter.push({ ...data, slug: formatSlug(file) })
+      allFrontMatter.push({ ...data, slug: formatSlug(fileName) })
     }
   })
 

lib/tags.js

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import fs from 'fs'
 import matter from 'gray-matter'
 import path from 'path'
-import { kebabCase } from './utils'
+import { getFiles } from './mdx'
+import kebabCase from './utils/kebabCase'
 
 const root = process.cwd()
 
 export async function getAllTags(type) {
-  const files = fs.readdirSync(path.join(root, 'data', type))
+  const files = await getFiles(type)
 
   let tagCount = {}
   // Iterate through each post, putting all found tags into `tags`

lib/utils/files.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import fs from 'fs'
+import path from 'path'
+
+const pipe = (...fns) => (x) => fns.reduce((v, f) => f(v), x)
+
+const flatternArray = (input) =>
+  input.reduce((acc, item) => [...acc, ...(Array.isArray(item) ? item : [item])], [])
+
+const map = (fn) => (input) => input.map(fn)
+
+const walkDir = (fullPath) => {
+  return fs.statSync(fullPath).isFile() ? fullPath : getAllFilesRecursively(fullPath)
+}
+
+const pathJoinPrefix = (prefix) => (extraPath) => path.join(prefix, extraPath)
+
+const getAllFilesRecursively = (folder) =>
+  pipe(fs.readdirSync, map(pipe(pathJoinPrefix(folder), walkDir)), flatternArray)(folder)
+
+export default getAllFilesRecursively

lib/utils/kebabCase.js

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-export const kebabCase = (str) =>
+const kebabCase = (str) =>
   str &&
   str
     .match(/[A-Z]{2,}(?=[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]*|\b)|[A-Z]?[a-z]+[0-9]*|[A-Z]|[0-9]+/g)
     .map((x) => x.toLowerCase())
     .join('-')
+
+export default kebabCase

pages/blog/[...slug].js

@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
-import fs from 'fs'
-import hydrate from 'next-mdx-remote/hydrate'
-import { getFiles, getFileBySlug, getAllFilesFrontMatter, formatSlug } from '@/lib/mdx'
-import PostLayout from '@/layouts/PostLayout'
 import MDXComponents from '@/components/MDXComponents'
 import PageTitle from '@/components/PageTitle'
+import PostLayout from '@/layouts/PostLayout'
 import generateRss from '@/lib/generate-rss'
+import { formatSlug, getAllFilesFrontMatter, getFileBySlug, getFiles } from '@/lib/mdx'
+import fs from 'fs'
+import hydrate from 'next-mdx-remote/hydrate'
 
 export async function getStaticPaths() {
-  const posts = await getFiles('blog')
-
+  const posts = getFiles('blog')
   return {
     paths: posts.map((p) => ({
       params: {
-        slug: formatSlug(p),
+        slug: formatSlug(p).split('/'),
       },
     })),
     fallback: false,
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ export async function getStaticPaths() {
 
 export async function getStaticProps({ params }) {
   const allPosts = await getAllFilesFrontMatter('blog')
-  const postIndex = allPosts.findIndex((post) => post.slug === params.slug)
+  const postIndex = allPosts.findIndex((post) => formatSlug(post.slug) === params.slug.join('/'))
   const prev = allPosts[postIndex + 1] || null
   const next = allPosts[postIndex - 1] || null
   const post = await getFileBySlug('blog', params.slug)

pages/tags.js

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-import siteMetadata from '@/data/siteMetadata'
-import { kebabCase } from '@/lib/utils'
-import { getAllTags } from '@/lib/tags'
-import Tag from '@/components/Tag'
 import Link from '@/components/Link'
 import { PageSeo } from '@/components/SEO'
+import Tag from '@/components/Tag'
+import siteMetadata from '@/data/siteMetadata'
+import { getAllTags } from '@/lib/tags'
+import kebabCase from '@/lib/utils/kebabCase'
 
 export async function getStaticProps() {
   const tags = await getAllTags('blog')

pages/tags/[tag].js

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-import fs from 'fs'
-import path from 'path'
-import { kebabCase } from '@/lib/utils'
-import { getAllFilesFrontMatter } from '@/lib/mdx'
-import { getAllTags } from '@/lib/tags'
+import { PageSeo } from '@/components/SEO'
 import siteMetadata from '@/data/siteMetadata'
 import ListLayout from '@/layouts/ListLayout'
-import { PageSeo } from '@/components/SEO'
 import generateRss from '@/lib/generate-rss'
+import { getAllFilesFrontMatter } from '@/lib/mdx'
+import { getAllTags } from '@/lib/tags'
+import kebabCase from '@/lib/utils/kebabCase'
+import fs from 'fs'
+import path from 'path'
 
 const root = process.cwd()
 

public/index.xml

@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-
-  <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-    <channel>
-      <title>Next.js Starter Blog</title>
-      <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog</link>
-      <description>A blog created with Next.js and Tailwind.css</description>
-      <language>en-us</language>
-      <managingEditor>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</managingEditor>
-      <webMaster>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</webMaster>
-      <lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
-      <atom:link href="https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
-      
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/introducing-tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog</guid>
-    <title>Introducing Tailwind Nexjs Starter Blog</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/introducing-tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog</link>
-    <description>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.</description>
-    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>next-js</category><category>tailwind</category><category>guide</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/guide-to-using-images-in-nextjs</guid>
-    <title>Images in Next.js</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/guide-to-using-images-in-nextjs</link>
-    <description>In this article we introduce adding images in the tailwind starter blog and the benefits and limitations of the next/image component.</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>next js</category><category>guide</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/deriving-ols-estimator</guid>
-    <title>Deriving the OLS Estimator</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/deriving-ols-estimator</link>
-    <description>How to derive the OLS Estimator with matrix notation and a tour of math typesetting using markdown with the help of KaTeX.</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>next js</category><category>math</category><category>ols</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/github-markdown-guide</guid>
-    <title>Markdown Guide</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/github-markdown-guide</link>
-    <description>Markdown cheatsheet for all your blogging needs - headers, lists, images, tables and more! An illustrated guide based on Github Flavored Markdown.</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>github</category><category>guide</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/the-time-machine</guid>
-    <title>The Time Machine</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/the-time-machine</link>
-    <description>The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His pale grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated...</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>writings</category><category>book</category><category>reflection</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/pictures-of-canada</guid>
-    <title>O Canada</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/pictures-of-canada</link>
-    <description>The scenic lands of Canada featuring maple leaves, snow-capped mountains, turquoise lakes and Toronto. Take in the sights in this photo gallery exhibition and see how easy it is to replicate with some MDX magic and tailwind classes.</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>holiday</category><category>canada</category><category>images</category>
-  </item>
-
-  <item>
-    <guid>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/code-sample</guid>
-    <title>Sample .md file</title>
-    <link>https://tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog.vercel.app/blog/code-sample</link>
-    <description>Example of a markdown file with code blocks and syntax highlighting</description>
-    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
-    <author>address@yoursite.com (Tails Azimuth)</author>
-    <category>markdown</category><category>code</category><category>features</category>
-  </item>
-
-    </channel>
-  </rss>