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🚀 Build a Production-Ready Blog with SvelteKit in 5 Minutes

#frontend #webdev #programming

Modern, fast, customizable — and fully open source.

Creating a blog with SvelteKit can be incredibly fun… until you start dealing with SEO, dark mode, styling, content setup, authors, tags, routing, RSS, sitemap, and more.

I’ve been there.

That’s why I built the SvelteKit Shadcn Blog Starter — a clean and production-ready template that lets you launch a modern blog in minutes instead of hours.

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/YusufCeng1z/sveltekit-shadcn-blog-starter

✨ What You Get Out of the Box

  • ⚡ 5-minute setup
  • 📝 Write posts in Markdown
  • 🎨 Beautiful UI with shadcn-svelte
  • 🔍 SEO-ready (RSS, Sitemap, OG tags)
  • 🌙 Dark mode included
  • 📱 Fully responsive
  • 🔎 Built-in search
  • 👤 Multi-author support

Whether you're building a personal blog, a dev blog, or a content-heavy site — this starter gives you everything you need.

💡 Why I Built This Starter

When I built my first SvelteKit blog, I spent days:

  • choosing a UI library
  • setting up MDsveX
  • configuring SEO
  • building tag pages
  • adding dark mode
  • writing RSS feed + sitemap logic

It took way too long.

So I built a starter that handles all this for you.
Clone → write content → deploy. That’s it.

🚧 Features Overview

📝 Content Management

  • Write posts using Markdown + Svelte components
  • Automatic tag pages
  • Multi-author setup
  • Built-in search
  • SEO-friendly slugs

🎨 Design & UX

  • shadcn-svelte UI components
  • Tailwind CSS styling
  • Dark/light theme detection
  • Fully mobile-friendly layout

🔍 SEO & Performance

  • Auto-generated sitemap.xml
  • Auto-generated RSS
  • Perfect Open Graph metadata
  • SvelteKit optimizations by default
  • TypeScript everywhere

🚀 Quick Start 

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/YusufCeng1z/sveltekit-shadcn-blog-starter.git
cd sveltekit-shadcn-blog-starter

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the dev server
npm run dev
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Open http://localhost:5173 and start creating your content.

🗂 Project Structure 

sveltekit-blog-starter/
├── src/
│   ├── lib/
│   │   ├── components/     # UI + shared components
│   │   └── config/         # Site config
│   ├── posts/              # Markdown blog posts
│   └── routes/
│       ├── blog/           # Blog list + blog post pages
│       ├── authors/        # Author pages
│       ├── tags/           # Tag archive pages
│       ├── sitemap.xml/    # Sitemap generator
│       └── rss.xml/        # RSS feed generator
└── static/                 # Images & assets
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✍️ Creating Your First Post

Create a new Markdown file under src/posts/:

---
title: "My First Blog Post"
description: "A short description of the post"
date: "2025-12-08"
tags: ["tutorial", "getting-started"]
author: "your-author-id"
---

# Welcome!

Start writing your content here…
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Everything updates automatically:

  • Blog page
  • Tags
  • Author route
  • RSS + sitemap

⚙️ Configuration

Modify the site config at:

src/lib/config/site.ts

export const siteConfig = {
    name: "My SvelteKit Blog",
    url: "https://yourdomain.com",
    description: "A modern blog built with SvelteKit",
    links: {
        twitter: "https://twitter.com/yourusername",
        github: "https://github.com/yourusername",
    },
};
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☁️ Deployment

✨ Recommended: Netlify

Just push to GitHub → Click New site from Git → Deploy.

Works great with zero config.

Other supported adapters:

  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Node.js
  • Static adapters

Simply install the correct SvelteKit adapter.

🔧 Customization

  • Customize UI with Tailwind classes
  • Edit or extend shadcn components
  • Replace layout styles
  • Add your brand colors
  • Add or remove sections easily

The starter is intentionally simple and flexible.

⭐ Show Your Support

If this starter saved you time (and headaches), consider starring the repo — it really helps others find it:

👉 https://github.com/YusufCeng1z/sveltekit-shadcn-blog-starter

❤️ Built by Yusuf Cengiz

Have suggestions or ideas?
Open an issue or reach out on GitHub!

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