Digital Garden
An open source blog (digital garden) template for developers
Overview:
The Modern Developer Blog Template is an open-source blogging template designed specifically for developers. It serves as a digital garden where developers can easily share their thoughts and ideas with the world. The template is built using Next.js app router, MDX, Contentlayer, Tailwind CSS, @shadcn/ui, and Lucide Icons. It includes features such as analytics, SEO, email subscriptions, and a modern tooling system. The template is highly customizable and can be deployed on various hosting providers.
Features:
- Next.js app router
- MDX for writing content
- Contentlayer for organizing content
- Tailwind CSS for styling
- @shadcn/ui for UI components
- Lucide Icons for icons
- Analytics integration
- SEO optimization
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- 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
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Shadcn UI
Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.
- 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.
- Digital Garden
A digital garden is a personal, evolving website that shares interconnected ideas and projects.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Contentlayer
Contentlayer is an open-source platform for building dynamic, data-driven websites and applications using markdown files as the content source. It features an intuitive API, flexible content modeling, and easy integration with popular frontend frameworks and tools.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vercel
Vercel offers built-in support for deploying and hosting Next.js applications, making it a popular choice among Next.js developers.
