This is multi-purpose Astro starter template based on the following:

• Astro as a modern static site generator
• TypeScript
• TailwindCSS and TailwindUI
• Iconify
• Hero Patterns
• unDraw for illustrations
• Markdown
• MDX
• Markdoc
• Schema.org and JSON for Linking Data, type-checked using schema-dts
• Open Graph used by Facebook
• Twitter Cards
• AlpineJS
• Local full text search using Lunr
• Math equations using KaTeX via remark-math and rehype-katex
• Diagrams using Mermaid, Markmap and PlantUML
• Open Street Map using Leaflet
• reading-time
• PhotoSwipe
• exifr
• Swiper
• Remark Emoji

It follows the JAMstack architecture by automatically building a static version from the Git repository. The demo is deployed on Github Pages.

Hello Astro can used for any/all of the following:

• corporate/marketing site
• blog
• documentation site
• portfolio site supporting photo galleries

This starter is open source (MIT licence) - fork it and customise for your needs.

Features

• Author content in a mix of Markdown, MDX and Markdoc
• Full-featured blog with frontmatter (title, description, author, date, image, tags)
• High performance low overhead with minimal Javascript (AlpineJS)
• Full text client based search of blog pages via lunrjs (search index only loaded on first invocation of search on a page)
• Index page and individual pages for authors, categories and tags, including pagination
• Support for RSS feed, sitemap and robots.txt
• SVG design (unDraw, Hero Patterns, Iconify)
• Support for code syntax highlighting
• Full SEO support including Open Graph, Twitter Cards and Schema.org via JSON-LD
• Full support for light and dark UI modes, as well as following system preferences, in accordance to TailwindCSS recommendation
• Customised 404 error page
• Display math equations using KaTeX via remark-math/rehype-katex (enclosed in $…$ or $$…$$)
• Display Mermaid, Markmap, PlantUML diagrams (authored as a code block with language mermaid, markmap and plantuml)
• Display map at geo coordinates and zoom level using Map component (need to also include extra: ['map'] in frontmatter to load CSS/JS assets for page)
• Calculates and show reading time for blog posts
• CSS/JS assets of external libraries loaded only when needed on a per page and per package basis - no unnecessary bloat
• Photo gallery and lightbox using PhotoSwipe (including display of EXIF tags)
• Carousel component using Swiper
• Documentation pages (modelled after astro docs starter but using Tailwind)