nextjs-prismic-blog-starter — Next.js Blog Template

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  Blog | NextJS Prismic Blog Starter
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This is a [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) project bootstrapped with [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app).

# 👀 Demo

- [https://nextjs-prismic-blog-starter.vercel.app/](https://nextjs-prismic-blog-starter.vercel.app/)
- [https://blog.iamsainikhil.com](https://blog.iamsainikhil.com/)
- Prismic Slices available with the starter can be seen in action [here](https://nextjs-prismic-blog-starter.vercel.app/article/prismic-slices).

# 🎉 **Features**

Multiple features of Prismic are used in this starter:

- **Slices**: Enrich your blogposts with custom quotes, images or codeblocks. You can order them how you like. When you used the *Image-Slice* the image will get inserted and optimized by **nextjs-image**
- **Relationship fields**: Categorize your blog articles in Categories via a relationship field. You can change categories on the fly
- **Both custom types (Single / Repeatable)**: Articles, Tags, Categories, Author sections of the website are managed with Prismic. The social media links or the header & footer sections are hardcoded content which can be customized easily!
- **Prismic Preview**: Prismic allows preview of any document which comes handy before publishing a document. This starter has got preview setup for article page. For more info, check [here](https://prismic.io/docs/technologies/previews-nextjs) and [here](https://user-guides.prismic.io/en/articles/768819-preview-a-document)

Therefore the starter has following features:

- Prismic as Headless CMS
- Prismic Previews
- [Theme UI](https://theme-ui.com/home) for styling
- Prism React Renderer plugin using PrismJS highlighting
- Responsive images (nextjs-image)
  - The right image size for every screen size
  - Traced SVG Loading (Lazy-Loading)
  - WebP Support
  - Prismic Imgix transformations
- SEO (nextjs-head)
  - OpenGraph Tags
  - Twitter Tags
  - Favicons
- Offline Support
- WebApp Manifest Support
- NextJS dynamic code-splitting of components
- NextJS optimized google fonts (nextjs-google-fonts)
- Configurable

  - Use the `next-config.js`, `Head.jsx`, and `Layout.jsx` to easily change the most important information
  - Themeable with `theme.js`

**⚠️ Note: This blog starter uses [Prismic](https://prismic.io/) as the Content Management System. Hence, you need to have the required data first before start using this starter.**

# 🛠️ **Prismic Setup**

## Account

- Create your Prismic account [here](https://prismic.io/signup)
- Create a project

## API Token

- After creating an account, head over to settings of the project you created earlier.
- Go to _API & Security_ section, grab the Permanent Access Token with _Access to master/README_images_.

## Custom Types

### Article

- Create a _Repeatable_ custom type with name _Article._
- Simply paste the JSON schema in `_src/schemas/article.json_` file in the _JSON editor_ of the `_Article_` type in _Prismic_. This will create all the below fields in the _Article_ type on the fly for you.
- Beauty of Prismic Slices is that they are optional data sections which can be customized very easily in the Prismic UI.
- **`Primary`** content of the article:

  - **uid** → ID of the article which you will find in the URL
  - **created** → Created date of the article
  - **modified** → Modified date of the article
  - **title** → Title of the article
  - **excerpt** → Short description of the article
  - **read_time** → Total time to read the article
  - **article_image** → Image of the article (ex- Thumbnail)

  ![Primary data fields Image](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_part_1.png)

- **`Slices`**(Optional):

  - **Content**: This slice has 2 types (Rich Text and Quote) based on which the `content` is rendered in the UI. Support for `inline code` using `codespan` label which appear in the HTML with a class `codespan`.

    - **Text** (Rich Text Section) **→** Rich WYSIWYG editor content which is consumed in the UI as the HTML.

    - **Quote** (Blockquote Section) → Select this type to have any blockquote content in the article.

  ![Content Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_slice_content.png)

  - **Alert**: This slice has 4 types (Info, Success, Warning, and Danger) based on which the `alert` UI will have different background color as well as border color. Support for `inline code` using `codespan` label which appear in the HTML with a class `codespan`.

  ![Alert Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/alert_slice_config.png)

  - **Image** (banner or gallery) → Use this slice to show a `banner` (single image with caption) or a `gallery` (group of images)

    ![Image Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_slice_image.png)

    - **Embed** → Use this slice to embed any platform content like YouTube, Vimeo, GitHub Gist, CodeSandbox, CodePen, etc.

      - **type** → Type of the embed like `GitHub Gist` or `Default` (YouTube, Vimeo, CodeSandbox, etc).
      - **embed_title** → Title of the embed.
      - **embed_url →** URL of the embed which will be consumed in an iframe in the UI

      ![Embed Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_slice_embed.png)

    - **Meta Information** (Website URL meta info Section) → Use this slice to show a meta info of any URL. You can obtain all the below information using [https://www.heymeta.com/](https://www.heymeta.com/)

      - **website_title →** Title of the website
      - **website_description →** Description of the website
      - **website_image** → Image of the website
      - **website_url →** URL of the website

      ![Meta Information Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_slice_meta_info.png)

    - **Code →** Use this slice to show any code block in the article

      - **type →** Mention the type of scenario where this code block is used. For ex- type of "List" will add some padding to the code block.
      - **lang →** Language of the code to have appropriate syntax highlighting using PrismJS
      - **code →** Actual code content

      ![Code Slice](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_data_fields_slice_code.png)

- **`Meta`** (meta information of the article)

  - **Categories** (repeatable section) with fields like:

    - category → Category of the article
    - slug → Category name in the URL

    _Category_ custom type is discussed later.

  - **Author** (non-repeatable section) → relationship field with _Author_ custom type discussed later.

- **`Tags` →** This is not defined in the Article type but can be set when you create any article like below:

  ![Tags](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_article_tags.png)

### Author

- Create a _Repeatable_ custom type with name _Author._
- Simply paste the JSON schema in `_src/schemas/author.json_` file in the _JSON editor_ of the `_Author_` type in _Prismic_. This will create all the below fields in the _Author_ type on the fly for you.
- Contents:
  - **uid →** URL slug of the author
  - **name →** Name of the author
  - **bio →** About the author
  - **avatar →** Image of the author
  - **social_links** (repeatble section) **→** Social links of the author
    - **platform_name →** Name of the platform (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, GitHub, CodePen, Portfolio (website). However, you can customize the icons which is discussed later.
    - **platform_url →** URL of the platform

![Author schema](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_author.png)

![Author social links schema](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_author_social_links.png)

### Category

- Create a _Repeatable_ custom type with name _Category._
- Simply paste the JSON schema in `_src/schemas/category.json_` file in the _JSON editor_ of the `_Category_` type in _Prismic_. This will create all the below fields in the _Category_ type on the fly for you.
- Contents:
  - **name →** Name of the category

# 💻 Quick start

1. **Create a NextJS site.**

   ```bash
   npx create-next-app

   # create a new NextJS site using this starter
   git clone https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter
   ```

2. **Install the packages**

   Install the packages using the command `npm install`

3. **Environment File**

   - Go to _API & Security_ section of your _Prismic_ project, grab the Permanent Access Token with _Access to master_.
   - The Repository Name is the name you have entered at the creation of the repository (you’ll also find it as the subdomain in the URL)
   - This project has the support for [DISQUS](https://disqus.com/) comments section which need your DISQUS project name which can be found at _https://<your-project-shortname>.disqus.com/admin/settings/general/_
   - Create an `.env` file in the root directory of the project. Add the following properties in it:

   ```json
    NEXT_PUBLIC_GA_ID=<your Google Analytics tracking ID> (Optional)

    NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL=<URL of the deployed app (Optional)>

    NEXT_PUBLIC_PRISMIC_REPO=<your prismic repository name (Required)>

    PRISMIC_API_URL=<your prismic repository API URL> (Required)

    PRISMIC_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your prismic permanent access token> (Required)

    NEXT_PUBLIC_DISQUS_NAME=<your disqus project shortname> (Required)
   ```

4. **Start developing.**

   Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

   ```bash
   # Go to project directory
   cd <name>

   # start the application
   npm run dev
   ```

5. **Open the source code and start editing!**

   Your site is now running at `http://localhost:3000`!

   Open the `<name>` directory in your code editor of choice and edit the contents. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!

# ⚙️ Available Scripts

---

In the project directory, you can run:

`npm run dev`

Runs the app in the development mode.Open `[http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000/)` to view it in the browser. The page will reload if you make edits. You will also see any lint or nextjs develop errors in the console.

`npm run start`

Runs the app in the production mode.Open `[http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000/)` to view it in the browser. The page will reload if you make edits. You will also see any lint or nextjs develop errors in the console.

`npm run build`

Builds the app for production to the `build` folder.It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes. Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about **[deployment](https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment)** for more information.

`npm format`

Formats the app files like _js, jsx, json, and md_ using Prettier. You can learn more about the format **[here](https://prettier.io/docs/en/install.html)**.

# **🧐 What's inside?**

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in a NextJS project.

```
.
├── node_modules
├── src
├── .gitignore
├── nextjs-config.js
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── README.md

```

1. **`/node_modules`**: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.
2. **`/src`**: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. `src` is a convention for “source code”.
3. **`.gitignore`**: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.
4. **`nextjs-config.js`**: This is the main configuration file for a NextJS site. This is where you can specify information about your plugins config you’d like to include, etc.
5. **`LICENSE`**: NextJS Prismic Blog Starter is licensed under the MIT license.
6. **`package-lock.json`** (See `package.json` below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for your project. **(You won’t change this file directly).**
7. **`package.json`**: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project.
8. **`README.md`**: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

# 🔬 **What's inside?**

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in the application.

```
/
├── components
├── public/fonts
├── public/images
├── pages
├── schemas
├── slices
├── styles
├── utils
```

1. **`components`:** This directory contain all of the reusable React components like Chip, Icon, Image, Listing, Layout, SEO, SliceMachine, etc.
2. **`public/fonts`:** This directory contain any custom font files which are imported in `styles/_fonts.scss` and later consumed in `theme.js`.
3. **`public/images`:** This directory contain images which are used in the components and later be optimized during NextJS build.
4. **`pages`:** This directory contain files which represent web pages like 404, index.js (homepage), \_app.js, etc. Moreover, you can generate dynamic pages using the `getStaticPaths` and `getStaticProps` methods based on the structure `pages/[sub-page]/[param].js`.
5. **`schemas`:** This directory contain JSON schema files which represent each custom type defined in Prismic.
6. **`slices`:** This directory is the ❤️ of the article page with files representing the slices discussed earlier in Prismic setup section.
7. **`styles`:** This directory contain scss files which include further styling of the HTML using old school process. PS: New process is to just use `Emotion` based `CSS-in-JS` styling which is also used extensively across the project.
8. **`utils`:** This directory contain general utility JS functions to reuse the functionality across the components.

# 🧰 3rd Party Packages

A list of packages used in this starter project.

1. **`dayjs`:** A 2KB immutable date library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs).
2. **`theme-ui`:** Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/system-ui/theme-ui).
3. **`prism-react-renderer`:** Renders highlighted Prism output to React (+ theming & vendored Prism). This package is used to syntax highlight the code blocks in article. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/prism-react-renderer).
4. **`react-copy-to-clipboard`:** Copy-to-clipboard React component used in Code slice `src/slices/Code.jsx`. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/nkbt/react-copy-to-clipboard).
5. **`react-gist`:** Github Gist React component used in Embed slice `src/slices/Embed.jsx`. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/tleunen/react-gist).
6. **`react-headroom`:** A handy react component to hide the site header until you need it. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/KyleAMathews/react-headroom).
7. **`react-icons`:** Absolutely useful package to get svg react icons of popular icon packs. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/react-icons/react-icons).
8. **`react-images`:** A mobile-friendly, highly customizable, carousel component for displaying media in ReactJS. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/jossmac/react-images).
9. **`react-snakke`:** Reading position indicator for React used to display the progress of the article as you scroll down the page. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/diogomoretti/react-snakke). This is one of the package which can be completely avoidable if you don't want it 😄.
10. **`react-toastify`:** React notification made easy. This is used to notify users of which code block they copied to clipboard used in Code slice `src/slices/Code.jsx`. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/fkhadra/react-toastify).
11. **`disqus-react`:** A React component for Disqus. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/disqus/disqus-react).
12. **`next-google-fonts`:** A simple plugin for loading Google Fonts fast and asynchronously. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/joe-bell/next-google-fonts)
13. **`next-pwa`:** A simple plugin to add PWA support for NextJS app. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/shadowwalker/next-pwa)
14. **`prismic-javascript`:** JavaScript development for prismic.io API v2. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/prismicio/prismic-javascript)
15. **`prismic-reactjs`:** A simple utility to render Rich Text with Prismic API V2. For more info, check [here](https://github.com/prismicio/prismic-reactjs)

# ⛏️ Customization

List of files where you can customize stuff to make this starter your own!!

1. **`Head.jsx`:** This file is where meta tags and other tags get injected to the document `head`.
2. **`next-config.js`:** As the name suggests, bulk of the customization resides in this file. I left so many comments which help you customize the options for several plugins.
3. **`theme.js`:** This is the 👁️ of the project with all the theme options declared in this file. Take some time understanding the theme-ui configuration [here](https://theme-ui.com/theme-spec).
4. **`Listing.jsx` & `Footer.jsx`:** Sample tracking logic is setup in the code which can be used as an example to customize the GA tracking events. You can remove this code logic entirely or customize to your needs.
5. **`public/site_image.png`:** Replace this image to update website meta image.

# 🚀 Deploy

[![Deploy to Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/img/deploy/button.svg)](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter)

[![Deploy with Vercel](https://vercel.com/button)](https://vercel.com/import/project?template=https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter)

# ⚓ Prismic Webhook

Prismic Webhook allows you to automatically or manually trigger a deployment process in Netlify or Vercel if any post is published or unpublished OR for other events in Prismic. I use Vercel as the example and I guess it might be quite similar for Netlify or any other cloud service.

## Steps:

- Create a Deploy Hook in Vercel [here](https://vercel.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/settings/git-integration). For more info, check [here](https://vercel.com/docs/v2/more/deploy-hooks)

![deploy_hook_vercel](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/deploy_hook_vercel.png)

- Copy the hook link and past in the URL section of the prismic Webhook
- Create a Prismic Webhook [here](https://iamsainikhil-blog.prismic.io/settings/webhooks/). For more info, check [here](https://user-guides.prismic.io/en/articles/790505-webhooks). -

![prismic_webhook](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_webhook.png)

- The `Secret` field is _optional_ in the Prismic Webhook. If you set it, Prismic will send the content to your server, so that you can verify that the request is coming from prismic.io.
- After successful creation of the Webhook, you can manually trigger it and can also see the logs.

![prismic_webhoks](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/prismic_webhooks.png)

> You can create any number of Webhooks for a prismic project!

# 🏎 Roadmap

- [x] Publish this starter as a template
- [x] Analytics support (Google Analytics)
- [x] Prismic Preview Setup
- [ ] Pagination Feature
- [ ] Search Feature
- [ ] Testing

# **🙌 Contribution**

- Open pull request with improvements.
- If you have any new idea, check the **[feature request](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md)** template to create a request.
- If you found any issue or a bug, check the **[bug report](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md)** template to create a report.

# **📃 License**

Have a look at the **[license file](https://github.com/iamsainikhil/nextjs-prismic-blog-starter/raw/master/README_images/LICENSE)** for details

# **📧 Contact**

Whether you’d like to discuss about this starter template or simply say “hello”, I’d love to hear from you.

Email: **[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])**

# **🎓 Learning NextJS**

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for NextJS lives [on the website](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started). Here are some places to start:

- **For most developers, I recommend starting with the [in-depth tutorial for creating a site with NextJS](https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/create-nextjs-app).** It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.
- **To dive straight into code samples, head [to the documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started).** In particular, check out the *Basic Features*, *API Reference*, and *Advanced Features* sections in the sidebar.

# **🎓 Learning Prsimic**

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Prismic lives [on the website](https://prismic.io/docs). Here are some places to start:

- **For most developers, I recommend starting with our [in-depth tutorial for creating a site with NextJS & Prismic](https://user-guides.prismic.io/en/collections/22783-examples#next-js-samples).** It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.
- **To dive straight into code samples, check the** [How To Guides](https://prismic.io/docs/technologies/prismic-and-nextjs)**.**