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Add a blog section to the Effection website following the same patterns as frontside.com/blog. Features include: - Blog index page at /blog with featured latest post - Individual post pages at /blog/:slug/ - Tag filtering at /blog/tags/:tag - RSS 2.0 feed at /blog/feed.xml - MDX support with frontmatter for post metadata - Author avatars and date display - Dark mode support - Pagefind search integration
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Love it! The only real suggestion is to make the xml builder, but other than that LGTM.
Addresses PR feedback to use the XML builder library instead of string templates for safer XML generation.
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Motivation
The Effection website currently links to external blog posts on frontside.com. Having a dedicated blog section on the Effection website will allow for:
Approach
This PR adds a blog following the same patterns as frontside.com/blog, adapted to the existing Effection website architecture:
New Routes
/blog- Blog index with featured latest post and grid of all posts/blog/:slug/- Individual post pages with full MDX rendering/blog/tags/:tag- Filter posts by tag/blog/feed.xml- RSS 2.0 feed for syndicationBlog Post Format
Posts live in
/blog/YYYY-MM-DD-slug/index.mdwith YAML frontmatter:Features
Files Added
www/resources/blog.ts- Blog context and MDX processingwww/routes/blog-*.tsx- Route handlerswww/components/blog/author-section.tsx- Author display componentwww/lib/author-config.ts&get-author-image.ts- Author utilitiesblog/2025-02-02-welcome-to-effection-blog/- Sample postFiles Modified
www/main.tsx- Register blog routeswww/components/header.tsx- Add "Blog" nav linkwww/routes/app.html.tsx- Add RSS autodiscoverywww/deno.json- Add remark-frontmatter dependenciesTesting
Run locally with:
Then visit:
Screenshots