Swyxdotio
This is the repo for swyx's blog - Blog content is created in github issues, then posted on swyx.io as blog pages! Comment/watch to follow along my blog within GitHub
Overview
swyx's personal site is built using SvelteKit and incorporates Tailwind 3 and Tailwind Typography for styling. The site is hosted on Netlify and uses GitHub Issues as its content management system (CMS). Previous versions of the site can be found on GitHub and there is also documentation available for the upcoming 2023 version.
Features
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SvelteKit: The site is built using SvelteKit, a framework for building web applications with Svelte. This allows for a fast and efficient development experience.
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Tailwind 3: The site utilizes Tailwind 3 for its styling, providing a set of utility classes that make it easy to design and customize the site's appearance.
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Tailwind Typography: In addition to Tailwind 3, the site also incorporates Tailwind Typography, a plugin that adds typographic styles and enhancements to the design.
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Netlify: The site is hosted on Netlify, a popular platform for deploying and managing static sites. Netlify provides a seamless deployment process and offers features like continuous integration and automatic SSL certificates.
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GitHub Issues CMS: The site uses GitHub Issues as its CMS, allowing swyx to easily manage and update the content of the site through GitHub's familiar interface.
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Previous Versions: Previous iterations of the site can be found on GitHub, providing a history of the site's development and evolution over time.
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2023 Version Documentation: There is documentation available for the upcoming 2023 version of the site, giving insights into its design and implementation.
- 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
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- 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.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- 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.
