marby-astro — Astro Blog Template

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2026-10-01T14:12:57.490Z

# Marby, an Astro real estate theme

A quiet, editorial theme for boutique real estate agencies and brokerages: property listings with filters, detail pages with photo galleries, a blog, team and office pages. Static output, no UI framework: every interaction is a small vanilla TypeScript module.

Live demo: [marby-astro.vercel.app](https://marby-astro.vercel.app)

## Features

- Full-bleed video hero with the brand wordmark
- Services as stacking sticky cards, offices as a sticky stack on the contact page
- Property listing with category tabs and live search
- Property pages generated from Markdown: specs, highlights, map, nearby places, lead advisor card and a photo gallery grouped by room with a lightbox
- Blog with category filters, related articles and Markdown posts
- Testimonial slider, glass feature cards, a team ticker that reveals portraits on hover
- FAQ accordions (one open at a time), contact form with loading and success states
- Overlay menu; the nav caption flips colour over dark sections
- Lenis smooth scrolling and scroll-triggered reveals
- Honours `prefers-reduced-motion`: smooth scrolling, the ticker and reveals switch off, the layout stays intact
- Urbanist and Onest, self-hosted through Fontsource

## Getting started

```sh
npm install
npm run dev      # http://localhost:4321
npm run build    # outputs to dist/
npm run preview  # serves dist/
```

## Pages

| Route | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| `/` | hero, about, services, featured listings, testimonials, features, team, FAQ |
| `/about-us` | vision and mission, milestones, beliefs, FAQ, team |
| `/property` | listing grid with tabs and search, FAQ tiles |
| `/property/[slug]` | one page per file in `src/content/properties/` |
| `/blog` | article grid with category filters |
| `/blog/[slug]` | one page per file in `src/content/blog/` |
| `/contact` | office cards, FAQ |
| `/terms-conditions` | terms |
| `/404` | not found |

The contact form and footer appear on every page except the 404.

## Editing content

- `src/content/site.json` holds all other copy: navigation, footer, socials, home sections, team, testimonials, FAQs, offices, about page, terms and labels.
- `src/content/properties/*.md`: one file per property. The frontmatter holds the specs, highlights, nearby places and gallery images; the Markdown body is the description. The filename is the URL.
- `src/content/blog/*.md`: one file per article (`order`, `title`, `date`, `category`, `image`). The filename is the URL.
- Schemas for both collections are in `src/content.config.ts`, so a typo in a field fails the build instead of breaking a page.
- Images and the hero video live in `public/assets/`.
- Colours, the type scale and easings are custom properties in `src/styles/tokens.css`; shared styles are in `src/styles/global.css`. Each component keeps its own styles.

## Project structure

```
src/
  components/        Nav, Footer, Btn, Icon, StoreBadge
    sections/        one component per page section
    ui/              cards and FAQ rows
  content/           site.json, properties/, blog/
  icons/             SVG icons
  layouts/Base.astro head, nav, footer, scripts
  pages/             routes
  scripts/           one module per behaviour, wired in entry.ts
  styles/            tokens.css, global.css
```

## Environment variables

All optional and off by default.

| Variable | Effect |
| --- | --- |
| `PUBLIC_FORM_ENDPOINT` | URL the contact form posts to (Formspree, Basin, ...). Unset, the form only shows its states. |
| `PUBLIC_VERCEL_ANALYTICS` | `true` loads Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights |
| `PUBLIC_STORE_BADGE` | `true` shows the fixed store badge in the corner |

## Deploy

The build is plain static files in `dist/`, so it runs on any static host. On Vercel or Netlify, import the repo and keep the defaults (build command `npm run build`, output `dist`). Set `site` in `astro.config.mjs` to your domain so canonical and Open Graph URLs are correct.

## License and credits

MIT, see `LICENSE`. Fonts: Urbanist (The Urbanist Project Authors) and Onest (The Onest Project Authors), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Names, addresses and photos in the demo are placeholders; replace them with your own. The property map embeds Google Maps.