Welcome to the Blog
by Astro Theme Switcher
astro blog getting-started
Welcome to your new Astro blog! This blog is powered by Astro Content Collections, which provides a type-safe way to manage your content.
What is Content Collections?
Content Collections are Astro’s way of organizing and validating your content. They provide:
- Type Safety: Your frontmatter is validated against a schema
- Organization: All your blog posts live in one place
- Developer Experience: Autocomplete and type checking for your content
Getting Started
To create a new blog post, simply add a new Markdown file to the src/content/blog/ directory. Each post should include frontmatter with the following fields:
title: The title of your blog postdescription: A brief description for SEO and previewspubDate: The publication dateupdatedDate: (Optional) When the post was last updatedheroImage: (Optional) An image to display with the posttags: (Optional) An array of tags for categorizationauthor: (Optional) The author name
Writing Your First Post
Create a new .md file in src/content/blog/ and start writing! You can use all standard Markdown features, and since you have MDX enabled, you can even use React components in your posts.
Happy blogging! 🚀