txarli.dev/README.md

Cassidy's blog template

Hello, welcome. This is a blog ("blahg" is the proper spelling for Chicagoans), or digital garden, or whatever. It's built with Astro, and uses TinaCMS to edit the content!

See the blahg

blahg.netlify.app

To use the template

• Connect to your chosen hosting provider (see Deploy to Netlify button below if you want to go that route, otherwise use the GitHub template button above and pick a different one)
• Make an account at tina.io
• Add your TinaCMS keys (see below)
• Update astro.config.mjs with your domain
• Edit src/config.js
• Add your URL in line 1 of public/robots.txt
• Edit the images in public/ (optional)
• Edit whatever tags you want in tina/config.js (optional)

And finally, please ping me (via social media, or in a GitHub Issue, or whatever) if you use this template! I would love to see your writing and subscribe to your RSS feed!

Run it yourself

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:4321
npx tinacms dev -c 'astro dev'	Manually run local server if the regular command doesn't work
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying

You go to localhost:4321/admin/index.html to see the CMS and use it. If you want to clone this for yourself, you'll need a .env.development file that has the following in it:

TINACLIENTID=<from tina.io>
TINATOKEN=<from tina.io>
TINASEARCH=<from tina.io>