TinyBones – clean, accessible Astro blog starter

TinyBones is a minimalist, batteries‑included blog template built with Astro. It focuses on:

• Speed: ships almost zero JS by default on content pages
• Accessibility: includes a dyslexia‑friendly font toggle and high‑contrast theming
• Writing ergonomics: clean typography, MD/MDX support, TOC, code copy, and sensible defaults

Live demo: https://tinybones.pages.dev/

Source: https://github.com/itzcozi/tinybones

Why I built it

Most blog starters are either too heavy or too bare. I wanted a tiny, readable baseline that I could deploy quickly without sacrificing quality of life features (TOC, search, comments). TinyBones started as my personal starter and is now a tidy template you can clone and ship.

Highlights

• MD + MDX content out of the box
• First‑class SEO: <SeoPost /> and <SeoPage />, RSS, sitemap, robots
• In‑page Table of Contents and automatic reading‑time
• Tag pages and author pages
• Built‑in search (client‑side fuzzy search + index generator)
• Share buttons and copy‑code buttons
• Giscus comments integration (toggle per post)
• Dark mode and dyslexia‑friendly font toggle
• Lightweight, accessible components with Tailwind v4

Quick start

1. Clone the repo

Then open http://localhost:4321.

2. Create your first post

What’s inside

• src/content/ — your posts (MD/MDX), validated with a Zod schema
• src/components/ — SEO, TOC, search, share, toggles, MDX UI (tabs, infobox)
• src/pages/ — blog listing, tag and author routes, RSS, Open Graph images
• public/ — favicons and the dyslexia font assets

Performance

Astro renders static HTML by default, so content pages ship minimal JS. Interactive bits like search and theme/dyslexia toggles hydrate only where needed.

If you use Giscus, flip enabled: true in src/siteConfig.ts and drop in your repo details. You can disable comments per‑post via frontmatter: comments: false.

Roadmap

• Draft/preview mode
• Image CDN helpers and captions
• More MDX shortcodes

License

MIT. Free to use for personal and commercial projects.

If you try it, I’d love feedback—especially around accessibility and the writing flow. Thanks for reading!