Building My Blog With SvelteKit, Markdown & Tailwind CSS

This is part 1 of building out my dev blog for coding & workflow related topics. I'm using Neovim, SvelteKit, Typescript, Tailwindcss and Markdown for this project. Hope you enjoy it!
💻 Code: github.com/josean-dev/sveltek...
🚀 My Dot Files: github.com/josean-dev/dev-env...
✍🏽 Live blog site: josean.com
Help Support Me And The Channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/joseanma... 🙏🏽
⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - Creating Project
01:21 - Initializing Repo
01:37 - Installing Dependencies
02:08 - typescript-svelte-plugin
02:36 - Start dev server
02:59 - Setup tailwindcss
04:19 - Navbar
05:20 - Logo SVG
06:37 - KZbin & Github Links
10:31 - Darkmode button
20:56 - Darkmode button animation
23:40 - Markdown posts & images
24:26 - Render markdown with mdsvex
28:47 - Style markdown with @tailwindcss/typography
31:03 - Code syntax highlighting
32:15 - Copy code button
40:41 - Post header with frontmatter metadata
47:18 - Conclusion
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[@tristansnow]

Josean- Thank you very much for the care and attention to detail you have put into each video. I especially appreciate the fact that you explain each Neovim plugin, and don't simply point us to NvChad and the like. I'm sure the pre-built configs are useful to some, but I've found following along with you that I have more ownership and understanding adding plugins using your basic structure.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Really happy to hear that, glad I can help!

[@user-tk7sc4gz2v]

truly underrated, the way you explained each plugin and its usage was awesome!

[@davidarnold1881]

Neatly done, I am sure this will be very helpful when i rewrite my blog in svelte/typescript. Thanks

[@Milky____]

I love SvelteKit and Tailwind, thank you for this!

[@Cuwubiq]

this is incredible, such a great job! ✨

[@user-tt1ru8og2n]

So greatful for your neovim video! Will like any video on this channel!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks! 🙏🏽

[@MudassirKhan-sx9jy]

This is quality content.

[@prrockzed]

Hey, still waiting for your next neovim configuration video. Thanks for the neovim series.

[@daltonstegner6718]

It would be amazing if you could do a series or even one video of setups for different languages! I am having trouble getting Angular setup and that is the only thing stopping me from being able to use neovim full time for work!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks for the feedback! I’m not sure if or when I’d be able to put something like that together, but appreciate you letting me know, I’m adding it the list. Haven’t worked with Angular before so not sure the specifics of getting everything configured.

[@Woeden]

Nice! Do you have a video showing how you deployed it?

[@antonyanchev7112]

Thanks for the tutorial! What keyboard are you using if you don’t mind me asking ?

[@tears_falling]

it's in the description

[@joseanmartinez]

It’s a custom built split called a corne

[@rohankewalramani8878]

Dope video Josean as always! Quick question, I am using LazyVim but my tags don't auto close, i.e. or other tags like that. Am I missing a setting?

[@wata1991]

It’s not part of lazyvim default config if I remember. You need to add the autopairs plugin.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yep! I’m using autopairs along with treesitter, though treesitter is optional.

[@NoctuaDeveloppement]

Hey ! Nice video great job! Just a tip, you may know it but you will gain speed to navigate between next and previous file with C-o and C-i 😅

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Thanks for the tip! I actually use C-o and C-i a lot, I didn't use it as much in this video so that it would be less confusing all of the jumping around.

[@NoctuaDeveloppement]

@@joseanmartinez yeah it’s what I thought. By the way I used part of your nvim configuration and pumped it a little by using ./after folder but your base configuration is amazing.

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s really great to hear. Happy to know my config has been a good starting point for your own setup!

[@medievalghoul4214]

what neovim version are you using?

[@isturizz]

Today I cloned your configuration and it works great, but I can't open the terminal from neovim as well as in this video, could I be forgetting or have something changed?

[@isturizz]

Ok, I was researching and didn't find anything, so I guess that's with tmux or something similar.

[@_acky]

How to get that tailwind and other auto completions ?

[@youdontknowme2508]

Tailwind lsp I guess.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yep! I’ve configured the lsp in my neovim config, I’ve linked to the config in the description and I have a video on setting up LSPs in Neovim in case you’re interested.

[@emmanuelezeagwula7436]

What’s the name of your theme in your Neovim

[@lishengma2207]

bro, you are cool

[@0netom]

is this supposed to be some tooling demo? because all these tools feel like a lot of unnecessary complication for a blog.

[@joseanmartinez]

There are likely simpler approaches to building a blog each with their own set of tradeoffs. I’m showing my personal approach here with SvelteKit, tailwindcss and markdown, which are some the web technologies I enjoy using and I also find provide a lot of flexibility. Any suggestions on a better approach?

[@javdmnm]

please add subtitle

[@HenriqueNewsted]

Why do you use npm in 2023?

[@ebn7722]

Any suggestion?

[@wata1991]

@@ebn7722pnpm or bun

[@pokedotdev]

@@ebn7722 pnpm

[@0netom]

it's an implicit `bun install` suggestion, i guess. but as i heard, the main speed gain is caused by bun defaulting to something similar as offline mode, but npm also has an option to behave similarly and then it would be a lot faster too.

[@isturizz]

​@@0netom bun is good, very good, but it's not the same, not yet. In that case, pnpm maybe.