Welcome to Astro Xenon

⛺ Setup

1. Clone this project:
   https://github.com/djmtype/astro-xenon.git
2. Run npm install or use your favorite build tool.
3. Enjoy!

🚀 Project Structure

Inside the Astro Xenon project, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
│   ├── fonts/
│   ├── images/
│   └── rss/
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   │   ├── global/
│   ├── data/
│   ├── demo/
│   ├── layouts/
│   ├── pages/
│   │   └── blog/
│   └── styles/
├── astro.config.mjs
├── package.json
└── postcss.config.js

Xenon is an opensource dark-first theme for Astro. Its color palette is based around the Tomorrow theme.

Xenon contains a few other plugins from the community like astro-imagetools and astro-icon.

📖 Settings / Instructions

General Info / Menu

General site info and main navigation items can be managed via src/data/site.json

RSS Feed

RSS has been pre-configured based on any markdown file placed within src/pages/blog. Be sure to configure your site's feed information in src/pages/feed.xml.js.

Postscript, adjust the site property value found in astro.config.mjs

Styling

Sorry, no Tailwinds. No Sass.

This theme utilizes PostCSS Env to accomplish Sass-like things such as custom media queries, css file imports, and nesting.

CSS custom properties (or variables) play a big part.

• All color properties are located within the src/styles/schemes directory
• All other properties reside in src/styles/common/_variables.css

The global gray scale is adaptive, based on the controls below.

/* Xenon's Default Background */
:root {
--color-primary-h: 205;
--gray-h: var(--color-primary-h);
--gray-s: 5%;
--gray-l: 90%;
--gray-increment: 10%;
}

These values can be adjusted separately for both day and night schemes inside the src/styles/schemes directory.

**Question:** What does *adaptive* grayscale even mean? **Answer:** Basically, you can tint your grays. *Be cautious about color accessibility.*

Common Astro Practices

Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components or layouts.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:3000
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying

👀 Want to learn more about Astro?

Feel free to check Astro's documentation or jump into Astro's Discord server.