Astro - Ink

Crisp, minimal, personal blog theme for Astro

Astro Ink is a minimal theme created to serve minimalistic markdown-based blog needs. It ships with almost all the basic Astro components that you might need while creating light-weight, performant, personal blogs, that focus on shipping less Javascript by default.

It's hugely inspired by Hugo's Ink theme and strives to remain light, while providing the basis for a beautiful, minimal blog.

Features

• Minimal, Crisp, Markdown-Blog Ready
• Uses astro@beta 1.0 - It uses Astro's 1.0 Beta release under the hood
• Svelte Ready - In its effort to remain light-weight, performant, and more approachable from Astro's POV, Svelte is used for interactive components like the theme switcher
• Modular - The structure is highly modular, with components doing just one job, and one job well.
• Collection + Dynamic Pages - It's ready with Next.js like dynamic pages, to support a tag-based classification system with paginated results, all configurable
• Dark Mode & Color Codes (beta) - It supports dark mode, and 6+ color modes that could be configured using tailwind.config.js. Remember to restart when developing, and enable just one group of colors at a time. To customize the blog section, add any of the Tailwind Typography's prose-{color} classes as referred here
• Netlify CMS^*NEW - Add/Edit/Update all the posts in the /blog directory by visiting your-site.netlify.com/admin ex: astro-ink.netlify.app/admin with your Netlify credentials. It needs Netlify Identity(https://app.netlify.com/sites/your-site/settings/identity#registration ) and Git Gateway(https://app.netlify.com/sites/your-site/settings/identity#services) enabled. (Write-up coming soon!)
• Future Posts^*NEW(with Github Actions) - Create posts in the /src/drafts directory with a future date in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and let a specially crafted Github Action take care of auto-publishing it on your specified date. You can configure the check interval in Github Action.(Write-up coming soon!)
• Client-Side Search^*NEW - Allow your users get to your blog posts quickly with client-side search feat. Lunr.js

Built with Astro Ink

• jamesperkins.dev - Personal site of developer, YouTube instructor James R Perkins
• highlandcows.github.io Nick Jacob's personal blog

know a site built with Astro Ink? Let me know on Twitter

Wanna learn Astro while building Ink?

Head over to aalam.in/blog and learn

• How to set Astro up and get it running with essential defaults for styling, prototyping, and incremental deployments
• Managing presentational components and creating Astro pages
• Feeding local as well as remote data to the Astro pages
• Putting interactivity where you absolutely cannot do without it in Astro
• Creating data-driven, dynamic pages and paginated results in Astro