Hey there 👋, Syakir here!
If you read my previous article about make money from coding, I encourage you to setup a portfolio or blog website to showcase your work.
In the past couple days, i have been building an simple, minimal portfolio / blog template for you so you can quckly deploy your personal website.
This template is Devolio.
Devolio built on top of Astro.js and Tailwind CSS as a Static website.
Devolio 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
- ✅ Dark Mode
- ✅ Responsive
- ✅ Post tags
- ✅ Projects
- ✅ Table of content
- ✅ Comment box with Giscus app
- ✅ Google tag / analytics integration
Setup your personal website with Devolio
You can deploy it to Netlify, Vercel or Cloudflare pages with just a few clicks.
I personally deploy all my websites to Cloudflare pages because their free tier doesnt have bandwith limitation and allow commercial project.
After you clone and deploy it to any hosting provider you choose, dont forget to:
1. Change the theme content
Change the logo, picture post and project list. I use my own data for default content.
2. Setup environment variables
SITE='http://localhost:4321' # your site domain
# Google tag manager / analytics setting (optional)
PUBLIC_GTAG_MEASUREMENT_ID='' # Google tag measurement ID 'G-MXXXXXXX'
# Github token setting to call github repository API with higher limit
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN='' # Github Personal access token 'ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
# Blog post comment setting (optional)
GISCUS_REPO='' # giscus.app repo 'devaradise/xxxxxxxx'
GISCUS_REPO_ID='' # giscus.app repo id 'R_xxxxxxx'
GISCUS_CATEGORY='' # giscus.app category 'Comments'
GISCUS_CATEGORY_ID='' # giscus.app category id 'DIC_xxxxxxxxxxx'
- Start writing and building
Blogging with static website is simple. All your contents are stored in /src/content/blog/. You just need to copy or follow the existing content format to write a new post.
When you're finished, commit your changes and push it to your repository. Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare will deploy your changes automatically.
4. Setup your domain name (optional)
To make your website more professional, consider to buy a domain name at namecheap started from $5.98 per year and point it to your website. Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare have a feature where you can set a custom domain for your blog project.
I will receive a commission at no additional cost to you if you buy a domain from the link above. It will support me to keep producing high quality contents and templates in this website :)
If you find this template useful, please give it a star on Github, or share it so more people can make use of it :D
Thank you!
Happy coding!
Top comments (18)
I LOVE ASTRO
Astro is now my framework of choice. I am also creating templates for use but still a bit behind where yours is.
I could see Astro becoming the framework of choice in the near future.
Yes!! Astro FTW.
I also thinking the same.
Now, its the best static site generator. I will believe its SSR feature will be a contender for next.js in the near future
I have replaced all my PHP with their SSR using express.js. I'm working on converting a site right now.
with express.js?
how does it work?
You can just use Astro SSR right?
Astro SSR has to have some sort of middleware such as node or netlify to handle the request. It's in the SSR docs. I use a server.js entry point and that has Astro route handlers in it. I also use separate middlewares in the /src/middleware folder to handle auth and verifications.
How do you come up with this. Can you share any tutorial or codes related to this aproach?
here's the link to my new article about my ssr template
dev.to/dansasser/supercharge-your-...
thanks, i'll look into it later
Also, love the pokemon game. I've also been working on some Pokemon stuff as well.
The pokemon project is actually my old project for a technical interview :D
Thank you for the template. Template looks clean and simple.
I've been hearing a lot of good things about Astro in terms of static site generation. I've used Gatsby before which is good but it has horrible mobile LightHouse scores. The desktop scores are really good.
For Astro, I've done LightHouse tests on multiple sites and it has very high scores on both mobile & desktop...I wonder why Gatsby lacks in that. Have you used Gatsby before?
Also Cloudflare Pages is awesome, I don't know how I didn't know about it before. It's great for hosting front-end projects, maybe even full stack if you use Workers.
I havent use Gatsby before.. but its probably how it handle the javascript overhead. A lot of factors involved though.
Thanks a lot for this. Will be very useful for my portfolio building. I looked through some posts and found an existing site called Devencyclopedia.dev that uses ASTRO as well.
I'm a react developer that uses mostly Next.js in work, but I'm looking forward to this in personal development
You're welcome! Good luck!
Info linkedin bang😁
/in/syakirurahman bro 😁
Thanks that very generous to share ;)
You're welcome. i hope you find it helpful :)
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