Astro • Tailwind CSS • DaisyUI • Portfolio & MDX Blog

👉 A responsive portfolio website featuring a project showcase, personal information, and a rich blogging platform.

🌐 Demo

Check out a live demo at aleksa.codes

This portfolio/blog is inspired by daisy-blog by @saadeghi, the creator of DaisyUI.

Key Features

• 🌌 Responsive Design – Optimized for all devices with Night Mode support
• 📰 Dynamic Blog – Write blog posts with MDX (or Markdown) support and auto-generated Open Graph images
• 🕒 Read Time Calculation – Calculates estimated read time for each post
• 💬 Interactive Blog – Comment section, draft mode, and RSS feed
• 📬 Contact Form – Easily get in touch through a built-in form
• 🔄 Local CMS – Manage content with ease using TinaCMS
• 🖼️ Social Profiles & Resume – Integrated links for social networks and resume download
• ☕ "Buy Me a Coffee" Button – Desktop-friendly support feature
• 🧩 PWA Ready – Installable on all devices with Google Lighthouse scores hitting 💯 (97-98 performance on mobile occasionally)

Note: To enable automatic Open Graph image generation, build locally before deployment.

🚀 Project Structure

This project is organized as follows:

/
├── public/               # Static assets (images, icons, etc.)
├── src/
│   ├── components/       # Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components
│   └── pages/            # Page routes (.astro or .md files) 
│       └── index.astro   # Homepage
└── package.json

Astro automatically exposes .astro and .md files in src/pages/ as routes, creating a clean and modular structure.

🧩 Commands

Run these commands from the project root:

Command	Action
yarn install	Install dependencies
yarn dev	Start local development server at localhost:4321
yarn cms	Start development server with TinaCMS at localhost:4321/admin/index.html
yarn build	Build production site to ./dist/ and generate Open Graph images for blog posts
yarn preview	Preview the production build locally before deploying
yarn astro ...	Run Astro CLI commands (e.g., astro add, astro check)
yarn astro --help	View help for Astro CLI commands

Note: For npm users, replace yarn with npm run.

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Feel free to contribute by opening issues or submitting pull requests!