This is a starter template for creating a beautiful, customizable blog in Jigsaw with minimal effort. You’ll only have to change a few settings and you’re ready to go.

View a preview of the blog template.

After installing Jigsaw, run the following command from your project directory:

./vendor/bin/jigsaw init blog

This starter template includes samples of common page types, and comes pre-configured with:

• A fully responsive navigation bar
• Tailwind CSS, a utility CSS framework that allows you to customize your design without touching a line of CSS
• Syntax highlighting using Prism
• A script that automatically generates a sitemap.xml file
• A custom 404 page
• A sample contact form
• A search bar powered by Fuse.js and Alpine.js, which indexes your content automatically and requires zero configuration

As with all Jigsaw sites, configuration settings can be found in config.php; you can update the variables in that file with settings specific to your site. You can also add new configuration variables there to use across your site; take a look at the Jigsaw documentation to learn more.

// config.php
return [
    'baseUrl' => 'https://my-awesome-jigsaw-site.com/',
    'production' => false,
    'siteName' => 'My Site',
    'siteDescription' => 'Give your blog a boost with Jigsaw.',
    ...
];

Tip: This configuration file is also where you’ll define any "collections" (for example, a collection of the contributors to your site, or a collection of blog posts organized by topic). Check out the official Jigsaw documentation to learn more.

You can write your content using a variety of file types. By default, this starter template expects your content to be located in the source/_posts/ folder.

The top of each content page contains a YAML header that specifies how it should be rendered. The title attribute is used to dynamically generate HTML title and OpenGraph tags for each page. The extends attribute defines which parent Blade layout this content file will render with (e.g. _layouts.post will render with source/_layouts/post.blade.php), and the section attribute defines the Blade "section" that expects this content to be placed into it.

---
extends: _layouts.post
section: content
title: Getting Started
date: 2022-08-02
description: Getting started with the Jigsaw blog starter template
cover_image: /assets/img/post-cover-image-2.png
featured: true
---

Any assets that need to be compiled, such as JavaScript or CSS using Tailwind, can be added to the source/_assets/ directory. Vite will process them when running npm run dev or npm run build, and the processed assets will be stored in /build_local or /build_production, respectively.

Files that don't require processing (such as images and fonts) can be added directly to /source/assets/.

Read more about compiling assets in Jigsaw using Vite.

Now that you’ve edited your configuration variables and know how to customize your styles and content, let’s build the site.

# run development server
npm run dev

# build static files with Vite
npm run build