Building a Simple Blog with Next.js

Introduction to Next.js Blog

Next.js is a popular React framework for building server-side rendered and statically generated websites and applications.

Step 1: Create a New Next.js Project

To start, create a new Next.js project using npx create-next-app my-blog.

npx create-next-app my-blog
cd my-blog

Step 2: Install Required Dependencies

Install the required dependencies, including markdown and remark.

npm install markdown remark

Step 3: Create Markdown Files

Create a new folder called posts and add Markdown files for each blog post.

# posts/post1.md
---
title: My First Post
---
This is my first blog post.

Step 4: Create a Page for Each Post

Create a new page for each post using getStaticProps and getStaticPaths.

// pages/posts/[id].js
import { GetStaticProps, GetStaticPaths } from 'next';
import { markdownToHtml } from '../lib/markdown';

export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps = async (context) => {
  const id = context.params.id;
  const markdown = await import(`../posts/${id}.md`);
  const html = await markdownToHtml(markdown.default);
  return {
    props: {
      html,
    },
  };
};

export const getStaticPaths = async () => {
  const posts = await import('../posts');
  const paths = Object.keys(posts).map((id) => ({ params: { id } }));
  return {
    paths,
    fallback: false,
  };
};

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to create a simple blog using Next.js and Markdown files.