Minte.dev Building in Public Blog

Daily blog posts about building projects in public, deployed to blog.minte.dev.

Features

• 📝 MDX Support - Write blog posts in Markdown with JSX
• 🚀 Cloudflare Pages - Edge deployment for global performance
• 📡 RSS Feed - Available at /rss.xml
• 🎨 Social Sharing - Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags
• 🗂️ R2 Storage - Post storage in Cloudflare R2
• 🔍 SEO Optimized - Sitemap, canonical URLs, and meta tags

Tech Stack

• Astro - Static site generator
• MDX - Markdown with JSX
• TypeScript - Type-safe development
• Cloudflare Pages - Hosting and edge deployment
• R2 - Object storage for posts

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start dev server
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Preview production build
npm run preview

Writing Posts

Create new posts in src/content/posts/ as .mdx files:

---
title: "Your Post Title"
description: "Short description for SEO and social sharing"
pubDate: 2026-01-31
author: "Flo"
tags: ["tag1", "tag2"]
draft: false
---

# Your content here

Write your post in Markdown with MDX support!

Deployment

Automatically deployed to Cloudflare Pages on push to main branch.

Manual Deploy

npm run build
npx wrangler pages deploy dist --project-name=minte-blog

Environment

• Production URL: https://blog.minte.dev
• R2 Bucket: blog-posts-prod
• GitHub Repo: Atlas-Os1/minte-blog

Structure

src/
├── content/
│   ├── config.ts        # Content collection definitions
│   └── posts/           # Blog posts (MDX files)
├── layouts/
│   ├── BaseLayout.astro # Base HTML layout with meta tags
│   └── PostLayout.astro # Post-specific layout
├── pages/
│   ├── index.astro      # Home page with post list
│   ├── posts/
│   │   └── [...slug].astro  # Dynamic post pages
│   └── rss.xml.ts       # RSS feed generator
└── components/          # Reusable components

License

MIT