This is a Tina CMS starter project.

Astro + TinaCMS Starter Kit: Blog

npx create-tina-app@latest --template tina-astro-starter

And start editing with TinaCMS at /admin!

🧑‍🚀 Seasoned astronaut? Delete this file. Have fun!

Features:

• ✅ Markdown & MDX support + TinaCMS Markdown Component
• ✅ TinaCMS Collections (Pages, Blogs, Config)
• ✅ Visual Editing using Custom Loaders and Client Directives (requires React)
• ✅ 100/100 Lighthouse performance
• ✅ View transitions are enabled
• ✅ Minimal styling (make it your own!)
• ✅ SEO-friendly with canonical URLs and OpenGraph data
• ✅ Sitemap support
• ✅ RSS Feed support

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your project, you'll see the following folders and files:

├── README.md
├── astro-tina-directive/
├── astro.config.mjs
├── package.json
├── pnpm-lock.yaml
├── public/
├── src
│   ├── components
│   ├── content
│   ├── content.config.ts
│   ├── layouts
│   ├── pages
│   └── styles
├── tina
│   ├── collections
│   ├── components
│   ├── config.ts
│   ├── pages
│   └── tina-lock.json
└── tsconfig.json

Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name which are generated from the content under src/content/ (excluding the config folder).

To enable Visual Editing with TinaCMS we have had to use React components and a new client:tina Directive. Which is the code located under astro-tina-directive.

Under the tina/ folder we have, collections/ which holds our TinaCMS schema definitions. Under components/ we have a custom Icon Component that is used within the TinaCMS UI. Under pages/ we have the "wrappers" that make the Visual Editing work, using the useTina hook.

The pages/index.astro is the "Home" page - This is a special case and has been setup to look for the content/page/home.mdx file.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

The src/content/ directory contains "collections" of related Markdown and MDX documents. Use getCollection() to retrieve posts from src/content/blog/, and type-check your frontmatter using an optional schema. See Astro's Content Collections docs to learn more.

Note

To use getCollection() we need to add a schema in content.config.ts with a custom loader that uses the correct TinaCMS Collection.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

👀 Want to learn more?

Check out the TinaCMS documentation and the Astro documentation or jump into our TinaCMS Discord server.

Credit

This theme is based off of the lovely Bear Blog.