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

cp .env.example .env

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

Command	Action
pnpm install	Installs dependencies
pnpm dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
pnpm build	Build your production site to ./dist/
pnpm preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
pnpm lint	Check for linting errors
pnpm lint:fix	Fix linting errors
pnpm format	Check formatting
pnpm format:fix	Fix formatting
pnpm astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check

🐳 Dev Container

This project includes a dev container configuration for a consistent development environment.

Prerequisites

• Docker installed and running
• socat and terminal-notifier for host notifications (macOS): brew install socat terminal-notifier

What's Included

• Node.js 22
• pnpm 9.15.0
• Claude Code CLI (pre-installed with plugins)
• Git
• Zsh with Oh My Zsh

Commands

Command	Action
pnpm devcontainer:build	Build the dev container
pnpm devcontainer:rebuild	Rebuild the dev container (no cache)
pnpm devcontainer:up	Start the dev container
pnpm devcontainer:stop	Stop the dev container and notifier
pnpm devcontainer:shell	Open a zsh shell in the container
pnpm devcontainer:claude	Start container with Claude Code and notifier
pnpm devcontainer:notifier:up	Start the macOS notification listener
pnpm devcontainer:notifier:stop	Stop the macOS notification listener

The devcontainer:claude command automatically starts the notification listener so you receive macOS notifications when Claude Code needs attention or completes a task.

🚀 Deployment to Cloudflare Pages

cd terraform
cp terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars
# Edit terraform.tfvars with your values
terraform init && terraform apply

Required API Token Permissions

Scope	Resource	Permission
Account	Cloudflare Pages	Edit
Zone	DNS	Edit

After applying, authorize GitHub in Cloudflare: Workers & Pages → project → Settings → Builds & deployments → Connect to GitHub.

👀 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.