A Blog example using Astro and DatoCMS

This example showcases an Astro Blog using DatoCMS as the data source. The purpose of this repo is to have a quick start reference that can be set up with the "one-click" button below.

Demo

Have a look at the end result live:

https://blog-astro-no-clientside-js.vercel.app/

How to use

Quick start

1. Create an account on DatoCMS.

2. Make sure that you have set up the Github integration on Vercel.

3. Let DatoCMS set everything up for you clicking this button:

Local setup

Once the setup of the project and repo is done, clone the repo locally.

Set up environment variables

In your DatoCMS' project, go to the Settings menu at the top and click API tokens.

Then click Read-only API token and copy the token.

Next, create the .env with your API token (which will be ignored by Git):

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echo ASTRO_EXAMPLE_CMS_DATOCMS_API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN> >> .env

Run your project locally

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npm install
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npm run dev

Your blog should be up and running on http://localhost:3000!