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TinyBones is a minimalist blog template for Astro focused on speed, readability, and accessibility. It ships almost zero JS on content pages and includes handy niceties like TOC, reading time, search, share buttons, and Giscus comments.

Highlights

- Minimal and fast: Built with Astro for optimal performance and minimal JavaScript

- SEO-friendly: Sitemap, RSS feed, and Open Graph protocol support out of the box

- Accessible: System, dark, and light mode support with keyboard navigation

- Developer-friendly: TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and modern tooling

- MDX support: Write interactive blog posts with custom components including - built-in InfoBox admonitions

- Comments system: Built-in support for Giscus comments

- CLI tool: Create and manage blog posts and projects from the command line

Demo: https://tinybones.pages.dev/

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

Astro, Tailwind v4, MD/MDX, Fuse.js for search, Giscus (optional)

TinyBones is a minimalist blog template for Astro focused on speed, readability, and accessibility. It ships almost zero JS on content pages and includes handy niceties like TOC, reading time, search, share buttons, and Giscus comments.

Highlights

- MD + MDX support

- SEO helpers (SEO components, RSS, sitemap, robots)

- Table of Contents + reading time

- Tag pages and author pages

- Client-side fuzzy search + index generator

- Share buttons and copy-code buttons

- Giscus comments (toggle per post)

- Dark mode + dyslexia‑friendly font toggle

- Tailwind v4, accessible components

Demo: https://tinybones.pages.dev/ Repo: https://github.com/itzcozi/tinybones

Astro, Tailwind v4, MD/MDX, Fuse.js for search, Giscus (optional)