Astral Halo

AstralHalo is a static blog template built with Astro, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, hosted on Codeberg under the HPCesia account, that generates a deployable blog site from Markdown and MDX content.

What is AstralHalo?

AstralHalo is a blog template powered by Astro, available at https://codeberg.org/HPCesia/AstralHalo and demonstrated at https://astral-halo.netlify.app/. The repository is written primarily in TypeScript (44.9%) and Astro (41.7%), with smaller shares of CSS, MDX, and JavaScript. It provides a "Use this template" button on Codeberg so anyone can create a new repository seeded with the full blog structure. The project has 497 commits, 3 tags, and a total size of 5 MiB.

Key Features

• Astro framework — Core static site generation with .astro files, using the island architecture for partial hydration.
• TypeScript — The largest code share at 44.9%, giving type safety to components and content handling.
• Tailwind CSS v4 — Styling is handled with Tailwind, and a commit specifically upgrades the project to v4.
• MDX support — MDX makes up 3.5% of the codebase, allowing posts to include interactive components.
• PWA support — The repository contains pwa-assets.config.ts and a commit titled "feat: support PWA", so the blog can be installed as a progressive web app.
• Microformats for social links — A recent commit adds microformats to social link markup, improving machine-readable metadata.
• Internationalization — The project uses a pnpm workspace with a dedicated i18n package, and READMEs are provided in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• Developer tooling — Reproducible builds via a Nix flake, plus ESLint, Prettier, stylelint, and a pnpm workspace configuration.

Who is it for?

• Astro developers who want to skip initial setup and use a ready-made blog scaffold with modern tooling.
• Multilingual bloggers who need i18n support, as the template's structure includes a dedicated i18n workspace.
• Users of Codeberg who prefer a Git-based workflow and want to create a blog by clicking "Use this template".
• Developers who care about PWA and want their blog to work offline and be installable.

What can you do with AstralHalo?

• Launch a blog quickly: Use the Codeberg template button to create a repository, clone it, and start writing posts in Markdown or MDX.
• Deploy to Netlify: The demo runs on Netlify, and the build output is static, so any static hosting service will work.
• Customize styling: Tailwind CSS v4 is already configured, so themes and layouts can be adjusted by editing Tailwind classes and Astro components.
• Add structured data: The included microformats for social links make it easier for external services to parse your profile links.