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✨ A New Stack — Introducing Redis Nuxt Blog: A Sci-Fi Blog Boilerplate from a Galaxy Not So Far Away

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“A long time ago, in a server rack far, far away, a lone developer sought a faster way to publish their thoughts across the galaxy…”

If you’re a developer roaming the cosmic void in search of the perfect blogging platform — one fast enough to outrun hyperspace lag, simple enough to configure from a single holocron file, and powered by the mighty Force of Redis — your quest ends here.

Welcome to Redis Nuxt Blog, a futuristic, high-performance boilerplate forged with Nuxt 3, Redis Stack, and a containerized fleet of Docker Star Destroyers.

Inspired by the legendary Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo, creator of Redis and intergalactic craftsman of absurdly fast data structures, this project aims to honor that sci-fi spirit — equal parts elegance, speed, and space-wizardry.

Grab your lightsabers, devs. We’re jumping to lightspeed. 🚀⚡

Redis Nuxt Blog

🌌 Why Another Blog Boilerplate?

Because most blog starters are like broken droids — sluggish, uncustomizable, and likely to beep something rude at you when you change a font.

Redis Nuxt Blog is built for developers who want:

  • A fast, SSR-friendly, SEO-happy front-end

  • A database engine so quick it would embarrass a pod-racer

  • A deeply configurable UI without fiddling with 27 separate config files

  • A ready-to-launch Docker setup

  • A CLI so efficient it feels like talking to R2-D2 (but without the panic screams)

  • A theming system powered by Tailwind CSS, customizable from one file

  • Markdown-powered post content

  • Dynamic excerpts and content width control

✨ Core Features (Translated from Wookiee)

🚀 Nuxt.js 3 Frontend

Modern. Fast. SSR-powered.

Perfect for blogs, portals, and broadcasting your galactic manifestos.

⚡ Redis Stack as the Primary Database

Forget SQL. Forget slow disks.

We harness the Quantum Hyperdrive (a.k.a RedisJSON + Redis Sorted Sets) to store posts with blazing speed.

Salvatore Sanfilippo didn’t intend Redis to be a sci-fi artifact… but let’s be honest, it might as well have been forged from midichlorians.

Redis Nuxt Blog

🎨 One Config File to Rule Them All (Now With Full Tailwind Integration)

Every visual setting — fonts, weights, palette, spacing, even content width — comes from:

config/blog.config.ts

This single file now controls:

  • Typography per heading level

  • Full Tailwind color palette generation

  • Global content max-width

  • Header title & tagline

  • Layout constraints

Balance to the styling Force, at last.

✂️ Post Excerpts (New!)

Enable post previews on the homepage with:

  • postExcerpt.enabled

  • postExcerpt.maxLength

Perfect for teasing your readers like a Holonet trailer.

↔️ Post Navigation

Navigate between posts like browsing encrypted Jedi archives.

📝 Markdown Support

Posts are fully Markdown-powered — headings, lists, code blocks, even multi-line input via CLI.

Write your galactic knowledge in pure Markdown. No HTML acrobatics needed.

📦 Dockerized Everything

Spin up Nuxt + Redis with one command:

docker compose up -d --build

Your dev environment becomes as consistent as Stormtrooper aim (but… good).

📜 Content CLI (Upgraded!)

Create, list, delete posts with simple commands:

npm run new-post
npm run post:list
npm run post:delete

The CLI now supports:

  • Multi-line Markdown input

  • Automatically generated slugs

  • Default author fallback

You are now the administrator of your own Holocron Library.

🛰️ Tech Stack: What Our Starship Is Made Of

  • Nuxt 3 — the elegant lightsaber

  • Redis Stack w/ RedisJSON — the hyperdrive core

  • Tailwind CSS — the robe of a modern Jedi developer

  • Google Fonts module — for typographic wizardry

  • Docker Compose — the Imperial Fleet

  • TypeScript + tsx runtime — because even smugglers need types

Redis Nuxt Blog

🛠️ The Holocron of Configuration (Updated!)

Everything — fonts, colors, layout, excerpts, pagination — lives in:

config/blog.config.ts

New additions include:

  • headerTitle

  • headerTagline

  • Dynamic Tailwind theme generation

  • contentMaxWidth

  • Post excerpts config

Want your blog to have an imperial blue palette?

Done.

Want H1 in Englebert and H2 in Roboto Slab?

Absolutely.

Want your content width to feel like the inside of a Star Destroyer corridor?

Just set a new max-width.

🔌 API Endpoints (For the Droids Among Us)

Endpoint Method Description
/api/posts GET Retrieve posts. Supports ?page=N
/api/posts/:slug GET Fetch single post + neighbors
/api/tags GET Retrieve all tags

Perfect for custom frontends, mobile apps, or your own droid companion.

🪐 Why Developers Love This

Because simplicity + power = developer bliss.

Because Redis is a piece of sci-fi technology disguised as a database.

Because Nuxt 3 is smooth as sliding through hyperspace.

Because Tailwind lets you customize everything without rewriting CSS.

Because Markdown posts feel like writing Jedi scrolls.

And because every post stored in Redis Sorted Sets is basically organized by the Force.

👤 Author & Origin Story

Built by Luca Visciola — drummer, developer, and happy dad.

Inspired by Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo, whose creation Redis is widely believed to be running not on silicon… but on compressed fragments of a neutron star.

🛸 Final Transmission

If you're searching for a fast, flexible, sci-fi-friendly blog engine that handles posts faster than the Millennium Falcon outruns TIE Fighters, this boilerplate may be the one you’re looking for.

Clone it.

Customize it.

Seed it.

Deploy it.

👉 GitHub Repository:

https://github.com/melasistema/redis-blog

And may the Force of Redis be with you. ❤️‍🔥

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