Swyxkit
An opinionated blog starter for SvelteKit + Tailwind + Netlify. Refreshed for SvelteKit 1.0!
Overview
SwyxKit is a starter for SvelteKit blogs that provides a lightweight and opinionated setup. It is built on SvelteKit 1.0 and Mdsvex, and has been verified to work on Netlify and Vercel. Some key features include a GitHub Issues-based CMS, support for Twitter/YouTube embeds, admonitions and bleed layouts, and minor design and user experience touches. The theme is fast and secure, with performance optimizations and security headers in place. SwyxKit is easy to install and deploy, and has been used by various users in the wild.
Features
- Light+Dark mode
- GitHub-Issues-driven blog with index
- Blog content pulled from the GitHub Issues API
- Comment and Reaction system from GitHub Issues, rendered with Utterances
- Shortcodes for embedding Tweets and YouTube videos
- Consumes markdown/MDSveX with syntax highlighting
- RSS and Sitemap with caching
- Performance and security optimizations
- 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.
