Blog Template
Scientific blog template based on theaisummer.com
Overview
The scientific blog template based on AI Summer provides a ready-to-use framework for scientific blogs. It supports various essential components such as Latex rendering, code blocks with highlighting, references and citations, interactive components, and more. The template is highly customizable and responsive, allowing users to create pages using standard React code or Markdown. It also includes features like search with a local index, SEO readiness, image preprocessing pipeline, and integration with Google Analytics and Tag Manager. The template is built with Gatsby v2 and requires some familiarity with React.
Features
- Latex rendering: The template supports rendering Latex equations using Katex and remark-math.
- Code blocks with highlighting: Code blocks in the blog can be highlighted using prism-react-renderer.
- References and citations: The template provides support for adding references and citations in the blog.
- Embed gifs and videos: Users can embed gifs and videos in their blog posts.
- Interactive components: The template allows the addition of interactive components to blog posts.
- Table of contents: A table of contents can be generated for blog posts.
- Filter and display posts by topic: Users can filter and display posts by topic.
- Customizable author pages: The template provides customizable author pages.
- Gatsby
GatsbyJS is a free and open-source static site generator based on React. It uses a modern development stack including Webpack, GraphQL, and modern JavaScript and CSS frameworks. It also provides a rich set of plugins, starters, and themes.
- 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
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prism JS
PrismJS is an open-source, lightweight, and extensible syntax highlighting library that supports a wide range of programming languages and markup formats.
- 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.
