Provides both a dark landing page and blog, aimed at developer tool and API companies
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pulsar-lite — Astro Blog Template
By cbetz
Pulsar Lite is a free dark theme for developer tool and API companies, featuring a landing page and blog, built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, without UI frameworks, and statically output.
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Built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, uses no UI frameworks, and outputs a fully static site
Design tokens are centralized in the @theme block of global.css, so editing one place reskins the entire site
Landing page includes a code panel, logo cloud, bento feature grid, tabbed code displays, and a trace waterfall section
Blog includes a featured-post index, article page styles, and four sample Markdown articles
Includes mobile navigation, a 404 page, OG images, a sitemap, and canonical links
Template Details
Pulsar Lite is a dark theme template for developer tool and API companies, offering both a marketing landing page and a blog. The repository is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, uses no UI frameworks, and includes no additional client-side JavaScript beyond a small navigation script and tab-switching controls, resulting in a fully static site. The demo brand Vega is a fictional API platform; the template is designed for users to replace it with their own brand.
The landing page includes a hero section with a code panel, a customer logo cloud, a bento feature grid with a regional map and latency sparkline, tabbed code displays, a trace waterfall observability section, testimonials, and a CTA. The blog provides an index page with featured posts, fully styled article pages, and four sample articles. It also includes mobile navigation, a 404 page, OG images, a sitemap, and canonical links.
The template provides a design token system: colors and fonts are centralized in the @theme block of global.css, and components reference only tokens, so editing that block reskins the entire site. A DESIGN.md file in the repository documents the complete design system. Accessibility features include semantic landmarks, focus states, prefers-reduced-motion support, and WCAG AA contrast.
Note that this repository is the Lite version and does not include the documentation site (Starlight), pricing page, changelog, or other content from the full Pulsar version, nor does it provide future major Astro version updates. Before use, verify the licenses of third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons; the code's MIT license does not cover these assets.
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Use Cases
- Building a dark marketing landing page for a developer tool or API product
- Maintaining a product blog and publishing Markdown articles on the same site
- Projects that need static output without introducing a front-end UI framework
- Sites that want centralized color and font tokens for quick reskinning
Suitable For
- Developer tool and API companies
- Teams needing a landing page plus blog combination
- Developers who prefer Astro and Tailwind CSS
- Users who accept replacing the demo brand and assets themselves
Getting started & customization
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Requires Node 22.12 or higher; install dependencies with pnpm install, start locally with pnpm dev, and generate static output to dist/ with pnpm build
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Brand replacement points include the wordmark in Logo.astro, the default description in BaseLayout.astro, the company information in Footer.astro, the site URL in astro.config.mjs, the author default in content.config.ts, and page titles
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Blog posts are Markdown files under src/content/blog/; frontmatter supports title, description, pubDate, author, and optional authorRole, tags, draft; routes are generated from filenames
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Colors and fonts are modified in the @theme block of src/styles/global.css; see DESIGN.md for the complete design system
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Third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked individually under their respective licenses; the code's MIT license does not cover these assets
License & source material
Usage conditions & limitations
Free to use · keep license noticeThis listing covers the free version in the public repository under the MIT license; the free scope applies to that version's code and does not mean external services or third-party assets are free.
Must comply with when using
- You may use, modify, commercialize, and distribute this version's code for free.
- When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
- The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.
Additional costs & items to verify
- The free Lite version does not provide future major Astro version updates; ongoing updates are exclusive to the paid full Pulsar version.
- This repository is under the free MIT license; the other column in the table points to the paid commercial Pulsar version, whose license differs from the free version.
- The documentation site (Starlight), pricing page, changelog, and other content exist only in the paid full version and are not included in the free Lite version.
- Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked under their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license.
- External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur separate charges.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge
Original License Text
| Updates | — | Current Astro major + 12 months |
Original README
| License | MIT | Commercial, unlimited projects |
Original README
https://github.com/cbetz/pulsar-lite/blob/main/LICENSEhttps://github.com/cbetz/pulsar-lite/blob/main/README.mdThe docs are the reason Pulsar exists
Original README
Compiled by DeepSeek based on repository license and README ·2026-10-02. Results only cover the materials read; dependencies, images, fonts, and subsequent term changes are subject to their respective original texts.
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Template Information
- Source platforms
- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- More documented · 92 / 100
- Technologies
- Astro
- Website type
- Blog · Corporate Website
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- 2026-06-12
- Screenshot last checked
- 2026-10-02
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Source file / repository# Pulsar Lite  A free, dark landing-page + blog theme for developer-tool and API companies, built with Astro 6 and Tailwind CSS 4. No UI frameworks, no client-side JavaScript beyond a small nav script and tab control — `.astro` components, self-hosted fonts, fully static output. **Live demo:** [pulsar-lite.cometthemes.com](https://pulsar-lite.cometthemes.com) The demo brand is **Vega**, a fictional API platform. Everything is meant to be rebranded. ## What's included - Landing page: hero with code panel, logo cloud, bento feature grid (region map, latency sparkline), tabbed code showcase, trace-waterfall observability section, testimonials, CTA - Blog: index with featured post, fully styled article pages, four example posts - Mobile nav, 404 page, OG image, sitemap, canonical URLs - Design-token system: rebrand the palette by editing one `@theme` block - Accessible: semantic landmarks, focus states, `prefers-reduced-motion` support, WCAG AA contrast ## Quick start ```bash pnpm install pnpm dev # http://localhost:4321 pnpm build # static output in dist/ ``` Requires Node 22.12+. ## Customizing **Colors and type** live in the `@theme` block of `src/styles/global.css` — surfaces, hairlines, three text levels, and the violet→cyan accent pair. Components only use tokens, so changing the block restyles the whole site. `DESIGN.md` documents the full system. **Brand strings** to replace: the wordmark in `src/components/Logo.astro`, the default description in `src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro`, the company line in `src/components/Footer.astro`, the `site` URL in `astro.config.mjs`, the author default in `src/content.config.ts`, and page titles in `src/pages/`. Find the rest with `grep -ri vega src/`. **Blog posts** are Markdown files in `src/content/blog/` with `title`, `description`, `pubDate`, `author`, optional `authorRole`/`tags`/`draft` frontmatter. Routes derive from the filename. ## Lite vs Pulsar | | Pulsar Lite (this repo) | [Pulsar — $39](https://buy.cometthemes.com) | |---|---|---| | Landing page | ✓ | ✓ | | Blog | ✓ | ✓ | | Documentation (Starlight, restyled to match the brand) | — | ✓ | | Pricing page with comparison table + FAQ | — | ✓ | | Changelog with timeline layout | — | ✓ | | Updates | — | Current Astro major + 12 months | | License | MIT | Commercial, unlimited projects | The docs are the reason Pulsar exists: a devtool company's documentation usually looks nothing like its marketing site. Pulsar ships Starlight fully restyled to the same design system — one brand across landing, docs, blog, and changelog. ## License MIT. If this theme is useful to you, a star helps other people find it.
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