Building a Blog with Alinea: A Step-by-Step Guide

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 the following command:

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
• 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.

import { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from 'next';

export default async function handler(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse) {
  // Fetch data from Alinea
  const data = await fetchAlineaData();
  res.status(200).json(data);
}

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.

import Head from 'next/head';

const HomePage = () => {
  const blogPosts = [...]; // Fetch blog posts from API endpoint

  return (

  );
};

export default HomePage;

We’ll also create a file called [slug].tsx in the posts directory, which will display individual blog posts.

import { useRouter } from 'next/router';

const BlogPostPage = () => {
  const router = useRouter();
  const { slug } = router.query;
  const blogPost = [...]; // Fetch blog post from API endpoint

  return (

  );
};

export default BlogPostPage;

Building Components

We’ll build reusable components for our blog, such as a BlogPostCard component that displays a summary of a blog post.

import Link from 'next/link';

const BlogPostCard = ({ post }) => {
  return (

  );
};

export default BlogPostCard;

This component can be reused throughout our blog to display blog posts in a consistent format.