Welcome to Astro Devblog

See the blog post or the YouTube video.

Before deploying to Netlify, generate a CockroachDB serverless database and copy the connection string.

For a more detailed set of instructions, see this blog post.

What is special about Astro Devblog?

Astro devblog has several benefits for use as a developer blog.

1. Completely serverless (no need to pay for hosting with awesome tools like Netlify)
2. Automatically post to Medium and Dev.to, two blogging platforms often used by developers.
3. Extensibility - I have done nothing fancy with this template. If you want to change something, it shoudn't be too difficult to do so.
4. Static - Astro ✨ships zero JavaScript by default✨ which means that Astro Devblog is 🔥blazingly fast🔥.

I'm done actively contributing to this template (unless I decide otherwise), but if you see something that can be improved, feel free to submit a PR. Three things that come to mind:

1. Image optimizations
2. Improved security (encrypt API tokens in db)
3. Improve the UI/styling

Acknowledgement

• Compare CockroachDB with YugabyteDB
• YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB