The code that powers my blog. Also has support for getting comments from Mastodon and can link to authors using ActivityPub.
Runs with Astro.
You can set the mastodonPost value in your markdown posts to a direct link to your Mastodon post. They will get loaded once the user scrolls down to the comment section, which is at the end of the post.
You can find the PostComments.svelte and MastodonPost.svelte in src/components/mastodon/.
Apart from just showing a profile picture, the poster's account handle and the contents of their post, it also supports custom emoji, pronoun badges (based on if the poster has a pronouns field in their profile) and it can also highlight if the poster is an author (or co-author) of the post.
These resources were really helpful in getting this working:
- https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastodon/
- https://jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jekyll-Mastodon-Comments/
- https://fietkau.blog/2023/another_blog_resurrection_fediverse_new_comment_system
Each blog post has author badges at the top that link to their profiles and grab their name and profile picture at build-time.
In markdown, you can give a post an array of authors with a link to each author's profile. It should work even if said author is on another ActivityPub-powered thing like Misskey, Akkoma, etc. (only tested with Bookwyrm so far though).
You can find ActivityPubProfileBadge.astro in src/components/mastodon/.
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:3000 |
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 |
- The Astro Blog template - https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/latest/examples/blog