Astro Starter Kit: Blog

npm create astro@latest -- --template blog

🧑‍🚀 Seasoned astronaut? Delete this file. Have fun!

Features:

• ✅ Minimal styling (make it your own!)
• ✅ 100/100 Lighthouse performance
• ✅ SEO-friendly with canonical URLs and OpenGraph data
• ✅ Sitemap support
• ✅ RSS Feed support
• ✅ Markdown & MDX support

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:

├── public/
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   ├── content/
│   ├── layouts/
│   └── pages/
├── astro.config.mjs
├── README.md
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

The src/content/ directory contains "collections" of related Markdown and MDX documents. Use getCollection() to retrieve posts from src/content/blog/, and type-check your frontmatter using an optional schema. See Astro's Content Collections docs to learn more.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI
npm run db:start	Start the Supabase Local Dev
npm run db:stop	Stops the Supabase Local Dev

Preparing the Dev Database

1. Start Supabase local

   npm run db:start

2. Import the backup file:

   psql -d postgresql://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:54322/postgres -f ./db_cluster-06-06-2025.backup
   

   Note: You may need to install Postgres to get the psql CLI.

3. Update .env with the Connection credentials.

   Go to http://localhost:54323/project/default and click on Connect. Select Astro as the App Framework.

   (If .env is not available, copy env.example to .env and update the contents).

4. To stop the Supabase local

   npm run db:stop

👀 Want to learn more?

Check out our documentation or jump into our Discord server.

Credit

This theme is based off of the lovely Bear Blog.