ASTRO - SSG: Components & How to use Them

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January 27, 2024

There is one thing that you need to understand to be on the top percentile of webs.

Just use Astro - IQ Percentiles

And it is how to use components.

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https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-add-chartjs-in-nextjs-13/

Spinning World Map
Charts

MermaidJS
ChartJS

OG and SEO
RSS
SiteMap

If you dont know yet, this is Astro, the HTML first framework.

Thanks to both, code to the moon and Awsome YT channels

Adding SiteMap for Astro Pages

We will need the package: "@astrojs/sitemap": "^3.0.3"

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Thanks to Astroverse Theme to show how to setup sitemaps in astro

Check that the SiteMap Works 📌

npm install @astrojs/sitemap

Then add it at astro.config.mjs

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import sitemap from '@astrojs/sitemap';

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
site: 'https://yourwebsite.com', // Replace with your site's URL, very important!
integrations: [sitemap()],
});

Before theends, add:

<link rel='sitemap' href='/sitemap.xml' />
<link rel='sitemap' href='/sitemap-index.xml' />

That will make your sitemap be at: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

curl -s https://jalcocertech.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" #200 means its there!
curl -s https://jalcocertech.com/sitemap-index.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" #could be

Make sure to have a robots.txt in the /public directory specifying the path:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://yourwebsite.com/sitemap-index.xml

It is a good moment now to go to google search and insert the sitemap reference:

SiteMap Google Search

Also, you can do it for bing search:

#curl "https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml"
curl "https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https://jalcocertech.com/sitemap-index.xml"

Check that the SiteMap Works 📌

#curl -s https://example.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
curl -s https://jalcocertech.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" #200 means its there!
curl -s https://cyclingthere.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
curl -s https://cyclingthere.com/sitemap-index.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" #its here!
curl -s https://iotechcrafts.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" 

curl -s https://fossengineer.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" #hugo paper mod has it

#optional - check robots.txt
curl -s https://jalcocertech.com/robots.txt | grep -i sitemap #look for sitemap direction
curl -s https://iotechcrafts.com/robots.txt | head -n 10 #see the first 10 lines

#example of path with robots
curl -s https://bachatafests.com/sitemap.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
curl -s https://bachatafests.com/robots.txt | head -n 10 #see the first 10 lines
curl -s https://bachatafests.com/robots.txt | grep -i sitemap #look for sitemap direction
curl -s https://bachatafests.com/sitemap_index.xml -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"

Search for any references to a sitemap URL within the robots.txt file. If found, you can use that URL to check for the sitemap instead

Spinning World Map

Found it at theme: https://github.com/Ladvace/astro-bento-portfolio
- https://github.com/IoTechCrafts/astro-bento-portfolio-ssg/blob/master/src/components/Globe.tsx

Extra nerdy details - Get your world Map for Astro 👇

You need the d3 and the solid-js package. Dont forget to add it to astro.config.mjs as integration.

import solidJs from "@astrojs/solid-js";


export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [solidJs(),],
  site: "https://yourwebsite.com",
});

"d3": "^7.9.0",
"@astrojs/solid-js": "^3.0.2",
"solid-js": "^1.8.7"

{
  "name": "astro-bento-portfolio",
  "type": "module",
  "version": "0.0.2",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "astro dev",
    "start": "astro dev",
    "build": "astro build",
    "preview": "astro preview",
    "astro": "astro"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@astrojs/netlify": "^3.1.1",
    "@astrojs/rss": "^4.0.1",
    "@astrojs/sitemap": "^3.0.3",
    "@astrojs/solid-js": "^3.0.2",
    "astro": "^4.0.5",
    "astro-icon": "^0.8.2",
    "astro-robots-txt": "^1.0.0",
    "mdast-util-to-string": "^4.0.0",
    "reading-time": "^1.5.0",
    "solid-js": "^1.8.7",
    "d3": "^7.9.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "motion": "^10.16.4",
    "autoprefixer": "^10.4.16",
    "@unocss/astro": "^0.58.0",
    "@unocss/postcss": "^0.58.0",
    "@unocss/preset-uno": "^0.58.0",
    "@unocss/reset": "^0.58.0",
    "markdown-it": "^14.0.0",
    "sanitize-html": "^2.11.0",
    "unocss": "^0.58.0"
  }
}

FAQ for Astro

With AlpineJS and TailwindCSS

Get a cool FAQ for Astro 👇

SSG Search

FuseJS

FuseJS - https://www.fusejs.io/

Also works with HUGO!

PageFind

Static web search with low bandwitdh

PageFind - https://github.com/cloudcannon/pagefind
- https://github.com/cloudcannon/pagefind?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-pagefind?activeTab=dependents
  - https://github.com/shishkin/astro-pagefind - MIT Licensed

Pagefind runs after Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Next, Astro, SvelteKit, or any other website framework!

Convert the Images to WebP

Interesting Post Slider with React

https://github.com/gio-del/Astro-Theme-Astroway
- https://github.com/gio-del/Astro-Theme-Astroway?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme

FAQ

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Whatever you try, make sure it pass the Tips for Websites

How can I try an Astro Project? ⏬

npm install
npm run dev
npm run build
npm run preview
#npm run astro --help

How can I avoid rendering posts which are draft? ⏬

Define the content collections properly Go to the astro.config.mjs or to the config.ts file.

import { defineCollection, reference, z } from 'astro:content';

const blogCollection = defineCollection({
    type: 'content',
    schema: ({ image }) => z.object({
        title: z.string(),
        intro: z.string(),
        tag: z.string(),
        pubDate: z.date(),
        draft: z.boolean().optional(), // Add this line!!
        type: z.string().optional(),
    }),
});

const pageCollection = defineCollection({
    type: 'content',
    schema: ({ image }) => z.object({
        title: z.string(),
        intro: z.string(),
        image: image().optional(),
        type: z.string().optional(),
    }),
});

export const collections = {
    'blog': blogCollection,
    'author': authorCollection,
    'page': pageCollection,
};

Then, use it in your astro templates like:

  const allPosts = (await getCollection('blog'))
        // Filter out posts that have draft: true
        .filter(post => !post.data.draft)
        // Sort the remaining posts by pubDate in descending order
        .sort((a, b) => b.data.pubDate.valueOf() - a.data.pubDate.valueOf());

How to deploy Astro to Cloudflare Pages? ⏬

It’s all about using the Cloudflare CLI wrangler properly:

Create the project (you will need to authenticate to Cloudflare):

npx wrangler pages project create #this will install wrangler CLI the first time
npx wrangler pages deploy dist #<BUILD_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY>

Use Wrangler to obtain a list of all available projects for Direct Upload:

npx wrangler pages project list #this are the ones you uploaded already
npx wrangler pages deployment list

One Final Step - Thanks to Project Brackets YT Video!

Remember to go to Cloudflare Web UI -> Workers and pages -> Select the project name as you uploaded with the CLI -> Custom Domains

If your domain is not with Cloudflare, they will ask you to use their Name Authoritative NameServers

Something like: fattouche.ns.cloudflare.com, leanna.ns.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare Authoritative Name Servers

ASTRO SEO PACKAGES

robots.txt - https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-robots-txt#why-astro-robots-txt` (MIT Licensed ❤️)
- You also need a sitemap!
rss
Image Optimization - It’s built in in astro: you dont want huge images for performance.