This is an Astro template for building a personal website. If you are new to Astro, I highly recommend checking out their main page before diving into this template.

You can check out a live example of this template on my personal site, at jongander.com.

Note that I have continued to develop my personal site, so it may not align with this template fully.

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Some of these behaviours are native to Astro, others may be reminders to myself of limitations caused by how I've built the project. They'll be loosely ordered in terms of criticality. Also check Astro Documentation.

Behaviours:

• <title> and some meta tags may default to the Base if the page title and filename differ, as the frontmatter.title is currently being parsed to get the URL to inject into Base.astro for blog posts
• Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.
• Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

For Reference, this is where I started:

• Astro Starter Kit: Minimal