domchristie / domchristie.co.uk

domchristie.co.uk

The Astro project behind domchristie.co.uk. It's built with Tailwind CSS and the Utopia approach, using tailwind-utopia.

🚀 Project Structure

You'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
│   └── …
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   │   └── …
│   │   └── posts
│   │   │   └── …
│   ├── layouts/
│   │   └── …
│   └── pages/
│       └── index.astro
│   │   └── posts
│   │   │   └── …
│   ├── posts.js
└── package.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.

• src/pages/index.astro is the homepage, listing the most recent posts: short posts are displayed in full, longer ones link to the full post page
• src/pages/posts/index.astro lists each post grouped by year, and links to the full post page
• src/posts.js provides functions for querying posts and their content

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

Customizations

To avoid awkward relative import referencing, aliases are set up in tsconfig.json:

• src/components/ is aliased to $components/
• src/layouts/ is aliased to $layouts/
• src/utils/ is aliased to $utils/

This helps with setting default layouts. To avoid having to set a layout in every file, astro.config.mjs includes a remark plugin to automatically set frontmatter.layout depending on where the file exists, for example:

• src/pages/about.md will have a frontmatter.layout of $layouts/Pages.astro
• src/pages/posts/hello-world.md will have a frontmatter.layout of $layouts/Posts.astro

This can be overridden in the file's frontmatter.

🧞 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: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 preview
npm run astro --help	Get help using the Astro CLI