Initial Astro Blog Setup

I decided it is time I had a simple reliable website and personal blog. I the past I’ve written my own static site generators to create my personal site. Those projects we good for learning, however they were all abandoned when the thing I was learning stopped being fun or interesting.

This time I’m using an existing established framework, I am not planning to re-invent the wheel (yet).

I picked Astro because it has clean HTML output without JS by default, perfectly suited to a static website. It also lets me do a lot more, which is inevitably what I want to do.

Setup

Astro Site Generation via GitHub Actions

• npm create astro@latest -- --template blog default / yes all options
• Delete unwanted pages and images
• Fix config.ts metadata
• Update url in astro.config.mjs
• Create .github/workflows/deploy.yml using these instructions.
• Now it works.

Domain

• Change Pages settings in the github repo ot point to my www domain
• Update CNAME record to point to t3hmun.github.io
• Done.

Success

I’ve done everything needed, this is now a working site that publishes itself automatically when anything new is pushed.