Blog Application
Build a blog with Markdown content and dynamic routing
What you'll learn
Structure a Next.js project for a content-driven site
Fetch and render markdown content from a headless CMS
Implement dynamic routing for individual blog posts
Add search functionality with client-side filtering
Build an RSS feed for content syndication
Optimize blog pages for SEO with metadata and structured data
Create a blog that reads Markdown files and renders them as pages.
Requirements
- List all blog posts on the homepage
- Dynamic slug-based routing for individual posts
- Markdown rendering with code highlighting
- Category or tag filtering
- Search posts by title
Starter
// pages/blog/[slug].tsx
export async function getStaticPaths() {
// TODO: Scan posts directory for .md files
return { paths: [], fallback: false }
}
export async function getStaticProps({ params }) {
// TODO: Read and parse the markdown file
return { props: {} }
}
Next Steps
Key Takeaways
A headless CMS (Contentful, Sanity, or local MDX) separates content management from presentation
Dynamic [...slug] routing creates individual blog post pages from a content collection
Client-side filtering provides instant search results without additional server requests
RSS feeds use XML with standard <channel> and <item> elements for content syndication
Metadata and structured data (JSON-LD) improve SEO by helping search engines understand page content