Astro Ink
Crisp, minimal, personal blog theme for Astro
Overview:
This product is a blog theme inspired by Hugo's Ink theme. It is designed to be minimal and lightweight while providing a beautiful blog aesthetic. The theme is compatible with Astro's latest release (currently 2.x) and utilizes Svelte for interactive components. It is highly modular, with components designed to perform specific functions efficiently. The theme also includes features such as dark mode, customizable color themes, Netlify CMS integration for easy content management, future post scheduling with Github Actions, client-side search using Lunr.js, a view counter using Redis or Upstash Redis, a media page with support for YouTube channel content, and author cards.
Features:
- Minimal, crisp, and Markdown-blog ready design
- Compatible with Astro's latest release (currently 2.x)
- Utilizes Svelte for interactive components such as the theme switcher
- Highly modular structure with components designed for specific functions
- Supports a tag-based classification system with paginated results using Astro 2.0 Content Collection + Dynamic Pages
- Dark mode with support for 6+ color modes
- Customizable color themes using tailwind.config.js
- Netlify CMS integration for easy content management
- Future post scheduling with Github Actions
- Client-side search feature using Lunr.js
- View counter feature using Redis or Upstash Redis
- Media page with support for displaying YouTube channel content
- Post-based or site-wide author cards with a Twitter follow button
- Themed image overlay option for post images
- 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.
- 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.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- 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.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- 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.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
