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A free, MIT-licensed Astro template for academic portfolios with BibTeX publications, blog, CV, projects, bookshelf, and full-text search.
A dark portfolio & blog theme for Astro with a live 5,000-particle Three.js background, blog system, and glassmorphism UI.
as-folio is an open-source Astro template that builds fast, static academic portfolio websites for researchers, scientists, and lab groups, turning BibTeX, Markdown, and YAML content into pages for publications, blog posts, projects, CVs, books, teaching, and people.
as-folio is a free, MIT-licensed academic portfolio template built with Astro 6.4+, Tailwind CSS v4, and strict TypeScript. It takes content from BibTeX, Markdown/MDX, YAML, and JSON files under src/content and src/data and compiles them into a static website with pages for publications, blog posts, projects, books, teaching, people, and a CV. The template is maintained by Dadang NH and began as an Astro reimplementation of the Jekyll-based al-folio theme before evolving into an independent project.
papers.bib entries into publication listings with author highlighting, abstracts, PDF/code/slides links, and optional Google Scholar, Altmetric, Dimensions, or InspireHEP citation badges.cv.yml) and JSONResume JSON (resume.json) formats, with PDF download.as-folio is for academics and researchers who need a professional online presence without building a site from scratch. Early-career researchers can publish a publication list and CV; lab groups can use the people and teaching pages to introduce team members and courses; open-source developers can use the repositories and GitHub stats pages; graduate students can maintain a math-heavy blog with KaTeX and notebook support.
src/content/people and list current/past courses in src/content/teaching.src/content/books with Open Library cover art, star ratings, and statuses like reading, finished, queued, or paused.src/content/announcements and src/content/posts, with frontmatter options for math, table of contents, and drafts.Deployment is env-first: you set ASTRO_SITE and ASTRO_BASE as environment variables, and astro.config.mjs reads them at build time. After forking the repo and setting GitHub Pages source to GitHub Actions, edit src/config/site.ts with your name, email, avatar, and social links, then push to main to auto-deploy. For local development, run corepack enable, copy .env.example to .env, and use yarn dev.
as-folio is free to use under the MIT license; there are no paid tiers or locked features.
al-folio, the Jekyll-based academic portfolio theme that as-folio reimplements and modernizes with Astro and Tailwind CSS.
Yes, the template is released under the MIT license and is free to use, modify, and deploy. No paid tiers or hidden costs are mentioned.
as-folio generates a static academic portfolio site from local data files: BibTeX for publications, Markdown/MDX for blog posts and projects, YAML/JSON for CVs, and Markdown for books, teaching, announcements, and people.
The template ships with pre-configured deployment for GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and Vercel. For GitHub Pages, set your repository's Pages source to GitHub Actions and push to main; the ASTRO_SITE and ASTRO_BASE variables control your site URL and base path.
Yes, as-folio includes a custom build-time BibTeX parser that converts entries in src/data/papers.bib into publication listings with author highlighting, abstracts, and optional citation badges.
The README lists Node 24+ and Astro 6.4+ as prerequisites, with Yarn 4 as the package manager.
