Sveltekit Blog Starter
A preconfigured SvelteKit static blog starter, with Sass, Markdown, MDSvex, Rehype, background preloading, and more. See the README for full details.
Overview
The SvelteKit static blog starter is a comprehensive solution for creating a static site generator for Markdown and Svelte-powered blogs. It leverages the power of SvelteKit to provide fast static site generation with hydration, allowing every route to be compiled into static HTML and optionally routed with JavaScript. With features such as zero-config preloading, Markdown support, pagination, category pages, and a JSON API for posts, this starter provides everything needed to create a dynamic and efficient blog. It also includes several customization options and features for enhanced SEO, responsive design, and page transitions.
Features
- Fully up-to-date with SvelteKit 1.0
- Super fast static site generation with hydration
- Zero-config preloading for automatic background preloading of top-level pages
- Markdown support with a pre-configured blog
- Pagination included with customizable posts per page
- Category pages included
- Posts JSON API
- Sass pre-installed and configured
- mdsvex pre-installed - allows the use of Svelte components inside Markdown
- Rehype plugins included - generate unique heading IDs for direct linking
- Responsive and accessible defaults - includes "skip to content" link and accessible mobile nav menu
- Page transitions
- Basic SEO for blog posts
- RSS feed set up and ready to go
- Svelte
Svelte is a modern front-end framework that compiles your code at build time, resulting in smaller and faster applications. It uses a reactive approach to update the DOM, allowing for high performance and a smoother user experience.
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
