Swyxkit
An opinionated blog starter for SvelteKit + Tailwind + Netlify. Refreshed for SvelteKit 1.0!
Overview:
SwyxKit is a lightly opinionated starter for SvelteKit blogs. It is built with SvelteKit 1.0 and Mdsvex and is verified to work on Netlify and Vercel. It includes features such as a GitHub Issues-based CMS, Twitter/YouTube embeds, admonitions and bleed layouts, and support for light and dark mode. The theme is designed with performance and security in mind and builds and deploys in approximately 40 seconds on Netlify.
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
- Fast and secure with performance optimizations and security headers
- Minor design and UX touches such as blog index facets, fuzzy search, and error page with GitHub API rate limit warning
- 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.
