🚀 EPDSN.dev Blog – Built with AstroPaper

🌐 Live Site

🔗 epdsn.dev – A minimal, responsive, and SEO-friendly blog built using AstroPaper and deployed on AWS Amplify.

This site serves as my personal space for sharing technical insights, quick notes, and projects while experimenting with Astro, Next.js, and AWS Cloud technologies.

✨ Features

• Accessible (Keyboard/VoiceOver)
• Responsive (mobile ~ desktops)
• Minimal & Responsive Design
• Light & Dark Mode Support 🌙
• SEO-Friendly & Fast 🚀
• Blog with Pagination & Notes Section 📝
• Customizable Theme & Font 🎨

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of AstroPaper, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
│   ├── assets/
│   │   └── logo.svg
│   │   └── logo.png
│   └── favicon.svg
│   └── astropaper-og.jpg
│   └── robots.txt
│   └── toggle-theme.js
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
│   │   └── socialIcons.ts
│   ├── components/
│   ├── content/
│   │   |  blog/
│   │   |    └── some-blog-posts.md
│   │   └── config.ts
│   ├── layouts/
│   └── pages/
│   └── styles/
│   └── utils/
│   └── config.ts
│   └── types.ts
└── package.json

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.

All blog posts are stored in src/content/blog directory.

📖 Documentation

• Astro Docs live URL
• Tailwind CSS Docs TailwindCSS
• AWS Amplify Docs AWS Amplify

🛠️ Tech Stack

Main Framework - Astro
Type Checking - TypeScript
Component Framework - ReactJS
Styling - TailwindCSS
UI/UX - Figma
Fuzzy Search - FuseJS
Icons - Boxicons | Tablers
Code Formatting - Prettier
Deployment - AWS Amplify
Illustration in About Page - https://freesvgillustration.com
Linting - ESLint

👨🏻‍💻 Running Locally

The easiest way to run this project locally is to run the following command in your desired directory.

# npm 6.x
npm create astro@latest --template satnaing/astro-paper

# npm 7+, extra double-dash is needed:
npm create astro@latest -- --template satnaing/astro-paper

# yarn
yarn create astro --template satnaing/astro-paper

🧞 Commands

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

Note! For Docker commands we must have it installed in your machine.

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run format:check	Check code format with Prettier
npm run format	Format codes with Prettier
npm run sync	Generates TypeScript types for all Astro modules. Learn more.
npm run cz	Commit code changes with commitizen
npm run lint	Lint with ESLint
docker compose up -d	Run AstroPaper on docker, You can access with the same hostname and port informed on dev command.
docker compose run app npm install	You can run any command above into the docker container.

Warning! Windows PowerShell users may need to install the concurrently package if they want to run diagnostics during development (astro check --watch & astro dev). For more info, see this issue.

✨ Feedback & Suggestions

Feel free to fork the repo and submit pull requests! Contributions, suggestions, and ideas are welcome.

Built with 🤍 by Eric Perez using Astro, Tailwind, and AWS Amplify. 🚀