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ASTRO - SSG: Components & How to use Them

ASTRO - SSG: Components & How to use Them

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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  1. Spinning World Map
  2. Charts
  • MermaidJS
  • ChartJS
  1. OG and SEO
  2. RSS
  3. 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"

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

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 with AlpineJS and TailwindCSS

Get a cool FAQ for Astro 👇

SSG Search

FuseJS

Also works with HUGO!

PageFind

Static web search with low bandwitdh

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

Convert the Images to WebP

Interesting Post Slider with React

FAQ

ℹ️
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:

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

Astro Cookies

https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/api-reference/#astrocookies

Astro OpenGraph and SEO Metadata

Interesting Tools

Primitives

https://github.com/radix-ui/primitives - Unstyled, accessible, open source React primitives for high-quality web apps and design systems.

Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. Maintained by @workos.

ChartJS

Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for the modern web Simple HTML5 Charts using the tag

Swiper

MermaidJS

https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

User Management / Authentication

https://authjs.dev/ https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth?tab=ISC-1-ov-file#readme

https://authjs.dev/getting-started/integrations

Authentication for the Web.

it works with Authentik! - https://authjs.dev/getting-started/providers/authentik

with wordpress, mastodon as well

Interesting Telecom ConceptsCreating a Landing Page