Next Mdx Digital Garden Starter
An opinionated starting point for Digital Garden content authoring.
Overview:
The Next + MDX Digital Garden Starter is a starting point for creating content in a digital garden format. It provides a setup for writing and organizing MDX files and generating statically rendered pages from those files. The goal is to create a flexible and customizable platform for authoring digital garden content.
Features:
- Opinionated Starting Point: The starter provides a pre-configured setup for getting started with digital garden content authoring.
- MDX Support: The starter supports writing in MDX format, allowing users to combine markdown and JSX syntax.
- Component Directory: There is a dedicated directory for placing React components, making it easy to reuse and reference them in MDX files.
- Statically Generated Pages: The system generates static pages from the MDX files, removing dependence on the filesystem path.
- Front-matter Support: The starter utilizes gray-matter to parse front-matter in the MDX files, allowing for additional metadata to be included.
- Index Page Generation: The index or home page is dynamically generated, featuring a list of posts sorted by date.
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- 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
- Styled Components
Styled Components is a popular library for styling React components using CSS syntax. It allows you to write CSS in your JavaScript code, making it easier to create dynamic styles that are specific to each component.
- Digital Garden
A digital garden is a personal, evolving website that shares interconnected ideas and projects.
- 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.
