Building a blog with Astro and Sveltia CMS

Building a blog with Astro and Sveltia CMS

January 30, 2025

I've been a SvelteKit fan for a couple of years, but I encountered a few issues with client side routing. They might be fixed by now, but I just wanted to switch to something simpler. No client side routing is needed for me, hey, I'm just making my blog. For the content management system, well, I used Decap CMS for udvarfeszt.hu, which fitted very well into my GitHub CI/CD based workflow, but we encountered some issues: besides some performance problems, their Slate editor (for markdown editing) just crashes sometimes (seems like the bug is still there), which is a critical-critical bug, so I decided to try switching to Sveltia CMS instead, which prides itself with being mostly compatible with Decap CMS. Yay. So I decided to just build my blog using Astro and Sveltia CMS, and if all works, I can try migrating udvarfeszt.hu too.

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