I Built a Blog with Astro

I finally built my blog with Astro, and it was one of those projects that taught me a lot by doing.

What I learned:

• Keeping content in Markdown makes writing and publishing much easier.
• A clean structure for pages and components saves time as the blog grows.
• SEO and social metadata are worth setting up early so posts share nicely.
• Automation helps a lot when posting consistently.

What I implemented:

• Category-based blog pages and dynamic post routes.
• Featured post, recent posts, and archive navigation.
• Share section and related posts on article pages.
• Open Graph metadata with a fallback social preview image.
• A GitHub Actions workflow to auto-publish new posts to LinkedIn and Facebook with a read-more link.

During this process, I used AI a lot as some of the steps felt extremely complex, and now, I have an understanding of the entire workflow. Phew!