Building a static MDX blog
A short tour of the file-based publishing model used by this template.
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This blog is intentionally file based. Each post lives in content/posts and starts with front matter that describes the article.
---
title: "My first post"
description: "A concise summary for cards and SEO."
date: "2026-05-03"
tags: ["Next.js", "MDX"]
---
Write the post body here.
Why MDX
MDX keeps publishing close to Git. The post body is regular Markdown, but it can also use React components when the template exposes them.
Static by default
The app reads the posts during next build, generates static routes with generateStaticParams, and exports the result to the out directory. That output can be uploaded to any CDN that serves static files.
What front matter controls
The metadata above feeds the archive, tags, Open Graph data, Twitter cards, canonical URLs, RSS output, and the JSON-LD block for each article.
