Hito Blog

Hito Blog is a minimalist Astro blog template that turns Markdown and MDX posts into a static website with RSS, sitemap, and SEO metadata built in.

What is Hito Blog?

Hito Blog is a lightweight, minimalist blog template built on the Astro framework by damenordev. It takes Markdown and MDX files from the src/content/blog collection and generates a static website with a homepage, blog pages, RSS feed, sitemap, and canonical/OpenGraph metadata. The template is distributed as a GitHub repository and can be installed with bun or npm-compatible commands.

Key Features

• Minimal styling — The template ships with a clean CSS foundation in src/styles, so you can replace the design without unpicking a theme.
• 100/100 Lighthouse performance — The project is engineered to hit perfect scores across performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO, per the README claim.
• SEO-friendly metadata — Every page includes canonical URLs and OpenGraph data, so shared links render with proper titles and previews.
• Sitemap support — A sitemap is generated automatically during the Astro build, helping search engines index posts.
• RSS Feed support — The template outputs an RSS feed for your blog, so readers can subscribe via feed readers.
• Markdown & MDX support — Write posts as .md or .mdx files in src/content/blog, with frontmatter schema type-checking through Astro's content collections.
• Astro-native project structure — Includes preconfigured folders for components, layouts, assets, constants, styles, and types, following Astro's standard file layout.

Who is it for?

• Personal bloggers who want a fast, minimal blog without configuring SEO and RSS plumbing themselves.
• Portfolio owners who need a lightweight site to showcase projects with Markdown-based case studies.
• Developers starting an Astro project who want a clean, documented base structure with content collections already wired up.

What can you do with Hito Blog?

• Create a blog: Write Markdown or MDX posts in the content collection and get automatically generated routes from each file name.
• Customize the design: Edit the minimal CSS and component files in src to match your own brand without removing a heavy theme.
• Run local development: Use bun dev to launch a dev server at localhost:4321 with hot reload, then bun run build to output the site to ./dist.
• Deploy anywhere static: Since Astro outputs plain HTML, the generated dist folder can be hosted on any static host.