Maggieappleton.com V3

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astro
react

My digital garden built with Astro and MDX. Featuring loosely opinionated notes, half-formed ideas, and content that is always growing.

Overview

The source code for Maggie Appleton's digital garden is an intriguing resource for anyone interested in personal knowledge management and web design. This platform serves as a creative space for curated notes, essays, and various design patterns, all underlined by a unique aesthetic vision. The open-source nature encourages exploration and personalization, fostering a community spirit that recognizes the distinctiveness of individual gardens.

As a digital garden, it offers a canvas for ideation and expression, while reminding users of the importance of originality. With this in mind, Maggie invites others to draw inspiration from her work while encouraging the development of their own personal style and functionality that reflects their tastes.

Features

  • Tech Stack: Built using Astro and MDX, ensuring a modern and efficient development experience.
  • Backlinks: Integrates backlinks for easy navigation between interconnected notes and essays.
  • Tooltip Previews: Enhanced user experience with tooltip hover previews powered by Tippy.js, providing context without clutter.
  • Masonry Grids: Utilizes CSS for masonry grid layouts, perfect for showcasing a variety of content in an organized yet visually appealing way.
  • Webmentions: Allows interaction and engagement through Webmentions via Brid.gy and Webmention.io, fostering a connected community.
  • Typed Collections: Offers a structured organization of content, including essays, notes, patterns, and more, making information retrieval straightforward.
  • Local Development: Streamlined local development process using npm, giving developers ease of use for experimentation and deployment.
  • Image Caching: Optimizes performance with Astro's image caching, ensuring that the site runs efficiently and loads quickly.
astro
Astro

Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries.

react
React

React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components

digital-garden
Digital Garden

A digital garden is a personal, evolving website that shares interconnected ideas and projects.

mdx
MDX

MDX is a format that allows developers to write JSX within Markdown documents, combining the power of React with the simplicity of Markdown. This allows for the creation of dynamic and interactive content that can be easily shared and consumed across different platforms and devices.