Next js Blog Boilerplate with Tailwind CSS [](https://twitter.com/ixartz)

August 31, 2025 · View on GitHub

🚀 Next.js Blog Boilerplate is starter code for your blog based on Next.js 12+ framework with Tailwind CSS 3.0. ⚡️ Made with Next.js, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS.

Clone this project and use it to create your own Next.js blog. You can check a Next js blog templates demo.

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Features

Blog feature:

🎈 Syntax Highlighting with Prism.js
🤖 SEO metadata and Open Graph tags
⚙️ JSON-LD for richer indexing
📖 Pagination
🌈 Include a FREE minimalist blog theme
⬇️ Markdown
💯 Maximize lighthouse score

Developer experience first:

🔥 Next.js for Static Site Generator
🎨 Integrate with Tailwind CSS
💅 PostCSS for processing Tailwind CSS
🎉 Type checking TypeScript
✏️ Linter with ESLint
🛠 Code Formatter with Prettier
🦊 SEO metadata, JSON-LD and Open Graph tags with Next SEO
⚙️ Bundler Analyzer

Built-in feature from Next.js:

☕ Minify HTML & CSS
💨 Live reload
✅ Cache busting

Philosophy

Minimal code
SEO-friendly
🚀 Production-ready

Requirements

Node.js and npm

Getting started

Run the following command on your local environment (for example, in Warp):

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ixartz/Next-js-Blog-Boilerplate.git my-project-name
cd my-project-name
npm install

Then, you can run locally in development mode with live reload:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your favorite browser to see your project.

.
├── _posts            # Your blog posts
├── public            # Static files
│   ├── assets
│   │   └── images
│   │       └── posts # Images used in your blog posts
└── src
    ├── pages         # Next.js pages
    ├── styles        # Your blog CSS files
    └── templates     # Blog templates

Customization

You can easily configure Next js Boilerplate. Please change the following file:

public/apple-touch-icon.png, public/favicon.ico, public/favicon-16x16.png and public/favicon-32x32.png: your blog favicon, you can generate from https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/
public/assets/images/logo.png, public/assets/images/logo-32x32.png: your blog logo
src/styles/main.css: your blog CSS file using Tailwind CSS
src/utils/Config.ts: configuration file like blog name, url, etc.
src/templates/Main.tsx: blog theme

Deploy to production

You can see the results locally in production mode with:

$ npm run build
$ npm run start

The generated HTML and CSS files are minified (built-in feature from Next js). It will also removed unused CSS from Tailwind CSS.

You can create an optimized production build with:

npm run build-prod

Now, your blog is ready to be deployed. All generated files are located at dist folder, which you can deploy with any hosting service.

Deploy to Netlify

Clone this repository on own GitHub account and deploy to Netlify:

Contributions

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this project. Feel free to open an issue if you have question or found a bug.

License

See LICENSE for more information.