# Astro Starter Kit: Blog
```sh
npm create astro@latest -- --template blog
```
> 🧑🚀 **Seasoned astronaut?** Delete this file. Have fun!
Features:
- ✅ Minimal styling (make it your own!)
- ✅ 100/100 Lighthouse performance
- ✅ SEO-friendly with canonical URLs and Open Graph data
- ✅ Sitemap support
- ✅ RSS Feed support
- ✅ Markdown & MDX support
## 🚀 Project Structure
Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:
```text
├── public/
├── src/
│ ├── assets/
│ ├── components/
│ ├── content/
│ ├── layouts/
│ └── pages/
├── astro.config.mjs
├── README.md
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json
```
Astro looks for `.astro` or `.md` files in the `src/pages/` directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.
There's nothing special about `src/components/`, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.
The `src/content/` directory contains "collections" of related Markdown and MDX documents. Use `getCollection()` to retrieve posts from `src/content/blog/`, and type-check your frontmatter using an optional schema. See [Astro's Content Collections docs](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/) to learn more.
Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the `public/` directory.
## 🧞 Commands
All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:
| Command | Action |
| :------------------------ | :----------------------------------------------- |
| `npm install` | Installs dependencies |
| `npm run dev` | Starts local dev server at `localhost:4321` |
| `npm run build` | Build your production site to `./dist/` |
| `npm run preview` | Preview your build locally, before deploying |
| `npm run astro ...` | Run CLI commands like `astro add`, `astro check` |
| `npm run astro -- --help` | Get help using the Astro CLI |
## 👀 Want to learn more?
Check out [our documentation](https://docs.astro.build) or jump into our [Discord server](https://astro.build/chat).
## Credit
This theme is based off of the lovely [Bear Blog](https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/).