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title: 'Introducing Tailwind Nexjs Starter Blog'
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date: '2021-01-12'
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lastmod: '2021-01-18'
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tags: ['next-js', 'tailwind', 'guide']
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draft: false
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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.'
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images: ['/static/images/canada/mountains.jpg', '/static/images/canada/toronto.jpg']
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---
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# Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog
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[](https://vercel.com/new/git/external?repository-url=https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog)
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This is a [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) blogging starter template. 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.
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[Demo Blog - my personal blog](https://www.timlrx.com)
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## Motivation
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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.
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It is inspired by [Lee Robinson's blog](https://github.com/leerob/leerob.io), but focuses only on static site generation. Design is adapted from [Tailwindlabs blog](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/blog.tailwindcss.com).
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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.
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## Features
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- Easy styling customization with [Tailwind 2.0](https://blog.tailwindcss.com/tailwindcss-v2)
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- Near perfect lighthouse score - [Lighthouse report](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/210111_DiC1_08f3670c3430bf4a9b76fc3b927716c5/)
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- Lightweight, 43kB first load JS, uses Preact in production build
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- Mobile-friendly view
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- Light and dark theme
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- [MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!](https://mdxjs.com/)
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- Server-side syntax highlighting with [rehype-prism](https://github.com/mapbox/rehype-prism)
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- Math display supported via [KaTeX](https://katex.org/)
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- Automatic image optimization via [next/image](https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization)
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- Flexible data retrieval with [next-mdx-remote](https://github.com/hashicorp/next-mdx-remote)
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- Support for tags - each unique tag will be its own page
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- SEO friendly with RSS feed, sitemaps and more!
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## Sample posts
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- [A markdown guide](/blog/github-markdown-guide)
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- [Learn more about images in Next.js](/blog/guide-to-using-images-in-nextjs)
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- [A tour of math typesetting](/blog/deriving-ols-estimator)
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- [Simple MDX image grid](/blog/pictures-of-canada)
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- [Example of long prose](/blog/the-time-machine)
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## Quick Start Guide
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1. Fork this project
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2. Rename the project to `<yourusername>.github.io`
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3. Modify `siteMetadata.json` and blog posts
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4. Deploy on Vercel
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## Development
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First, run the development server:
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```bash
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npm start
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# or
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npm run dev
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```
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Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) with your browser to see the result.
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You can start editing the page by modifying `pages/index.js`. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.
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## Extend / Customize
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`data/siteMetadata.json` - contains most of the site related information which should be modified for a user's need.
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`data/logo.svg` - replace with your own logo.
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`data/blog` - replace with your own blog posts.
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`public/static` - store assets such as images and favicons.
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`css/tailwind.css` - contains the tailwind stylesheet which can be modified to change the overall look and feel of the site.
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`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 uses [heroicons](https://heroicons.com/).
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`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.
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`layouts` - main templates used in pages.
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`pages` - pages to route to. Read the [Next.js documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs) for more information
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## Post
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### Frontmatter
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Frontmatter follows [Hugo's standards](https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/).
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Currently 7 fields are supported.
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```
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title (required)
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date (required)
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tags (required, can be empty array)
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lastmod (optional)
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draft (optional)
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summary (optional)
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images (optional, adds to socialBanner in siteMetadata config)
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```
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Here's an example of a post's frontmatter:
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```
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---
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title: 'Introducing Tailwind Nexjs Starter Blog'
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date: '2021-01-12'
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lastmod: '2021-01-18'
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tags: ['next-js', 'tailwind', 'guide']
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draft: false
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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.'
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images: ['/static/images/canada/mountains.jpg', '/static/images/canada/toronto.jpg']
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---
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```
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### Compose
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`scripts/compose.js` can be used to easily generate a post with pre-filled front matter.
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The first argument is the name of the post and the second optional argument is the extension (default to .mdx)
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Example code to generate the post called "My First Post" in markdown format
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```
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node ./scripts/compose.js "My First Post" .md
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```
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This will generate `./data/blog/my-first-post.md` with pre-filled front matter.
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## Deploy
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**Vercel**
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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.
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**Netlify / Github Pages / Firebase etc.**
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As the template uses `next/image` for image optimization, additional configurations has to be made to deploy on other popular static hosting websites like [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) or [Github Pages](https://pages.github.com/). An alternative image optimization provider such as Imgix, Cloudinary or Akamai has to be used. Alternatively, replace the `next/image` component with a standard `<img>` tag. See [`next/image` documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization) for more details.
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