Cassidy's blog template

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

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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
Add your links in src/components/Header.astro
Update the intro in pages/about.md
Edit the images in public/ (optional)
Edit whatever tags you want in tina/config.js (optional)

After this, you can add your content to posts/ with Markdown files, or with TinaCMS by going to yoururl.com/admin!

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>

If you get a remote GraphQL schema error, chances are you need to update TinaCMS, details here!

Have fun!