Building a Blog with Alinea: A Step-by-Step Guide
In this article, we’ll explore the process of building a blog using Alinea, a new content management system (CMS). We’ll cover the setup and configuration of Alinea, creating blog pages and types, getting data to the frontend, displaying data in views, and building components for the blog.
Setting up Alinea
To start, we’ll create a new Alinea app using React and Next.js. We’ll install Alinea using npm and initialize it with npx alinea init. This will create a new directory called alinea containing the schema files for our blog.
Creating Blog Pages and Types
Next, we’ll create the schema files for our blog pages and types. In the schema directory, we’ll create four files: index.ts, homePage.ts, blogCollection.ts, and blogPost.ts. These files will define the structure of our blog data.
Getting Data to the Frontend
To retrieve data from Alinea, we’ll create an API endpoint using Next.js API routes. We’ll create a file called api.ts in the api directory, which will contain functions for fetching data from Alinea.
Displaying Data in Views
We’ll create pages for our blog using Next.js pages. We’ll create a file called index.tsx in the pages directory, which will display a list of blog posts. We’ll also create a file called [slug].tsx in the posts directory, which will display individual blog posts.
**Building Components