Syenite features

Updated: October 8, 2023

These are all the features that the Syenite blog engine currently offers. Check out the wishlist for planned or desired features.

Authoring

Write articles in markdown 🔗
mdsvex 🔗 allows Svelte components in markdown
Use Obsidian 🔗 to author articles, with support for:
- linking other Obsidian documents in the same vault
- linking images in the same vault
- linking headings in another document
YAML frontmatter 🔗 for article metadata
Create pages with Svelte components (see /about) or markdown (see /uses)
Create drafts in _drafts and drag them to the corresponding [year]/[month]/ when the article is ready to be published

Blog index (/blog) with:
- articles sorted in reverse published order (latest first)
- article blurb based on description frontmatter
Article tags with tags index (/tags)
RSS feed (/rss.xml)
Sitemap (/sitemap.xml)
Light / dark mode with persistence in localStorage
Mobile main nav
Linkable article headings
Automatic table of contents from article headings (H1, H2, etc)
Links to the previous and next article at the bottom of each article
Configurable Author name & URL, overwritten in frontmatter
Page/article header metadata and open graph 🔗 tags
TypeScript support, although I’ve made zero effort to implement anything in TS

Tailwind CSS
GitHub markdown styling, customizable using CSS tokens
Mobile-friendly / responsive layout
Colors defined with CSS tokens in the main stylesheet (app.postcss)
PostCSS support
Separate visual treatment and behavior of internal vs external links. External links have a 🔗 icon attached and open in a new tab. To be considered external, a URL must not be relative, and must be prefixed with http(s)://.