harrison-broadbent/ruby-middleman-tailwind-starter-blog: A Middleman blog template configured with TailwindCSS, markdown parsing, code highlighting, a sitemap.xml and more. It's a perfect lightweight

Ruby Middleman Tailwind Starter Blog

A Middleman blog template configured with TailwindCSS, markdown parsing, code highlighting, a sitemap.xml and more. It perfect for lightweight blogging or a personal website. Ruby knowledge is helpful, but not necessary.

Features

Middleman v4.5,

TailwindCSS v3.4.3,

Markdown support (via kramdown ),

), Blogging support (via middleman-blog ),

), Syntax highlighting support (via middleman-syntax ),

), Live-reloading (via middleman-livereload ) and bin/dev script,

) and script, Automatic sitemap.xml generation,

generation, SEO-friendly automatic meta tags for title and description ,

and , Perfect 100/100 PageSpeed score (near perfect for mobile)

Github Action for image compression (see compress_images.yml ).

Visit the live template demo for a preview of how it looks (although of course, you can customize it yourself).

I've used Middleman for years to build my personal website, and this template is a consolidation of everything I've learned.

Getting started

Before you get started, make sure you've got Ruby installed. Currently, this template uses Ruby v3.3.0 .

Clone this template, then install the required packages and start the server:

# install Ruby packages & tailwindcss bundle npm install # start dev server bin/dev

Deploying

This template is easy to deploy. Any static site host should work; I personally use Netlify and I've included the Netlify + Vercel "Deploy" buttons below.