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, Tailwind 3, Tailwind Typography, Netlify, and GitHub Issues as the CMS. The site has undergone several iterations, with the current version available at https://swyx.io. Previous versions of the site from 2017 can be viewed at https://www.swyx.io/rewrite-2022, and the last version of the 2022 site has been preserved at https://github.com/swyxio/swyxdotio2022. The upcoming 2023 site is documented at https://www.swyx.io/rewrite-2023.
Features
- SvelteKit: The site is built using SvelteKit, a framework for building web applications with Svelte.
- Tailwind 3: The site utilizes Tailwind 3, a utility-first CSS framework, for its styling and layout.
- Tailwind Typography: Tailwind Typography is used to enhance the typographic design of the site, providing a beautiful and consistent typography.
- Netlify: The site is hosted on Netlify, a cloud-based hosting platform that simplifies the deployment process.
- GitHub Issues as CMS: GitHub Issues are used as the content management system for the site, allowing for easy management and editing of the site's content.
- 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.
