blog.anindya.dev

Personal blog by Anindya Dutta. Essays on engineering, leadership, and building things.

Stack

• React + Vite + TypeScript
• EB Garamond (serif body) + Inter (UI)
• Pure CSS, no component library
• Posts written in Markdown with frontmatter, loaded via import.meta.glob
• Deployed to GitHub Pages at blog.anindya.dev

Writing a new post

Add a .md file to src/posts/ with this frontmatter:

---
title: Your post title
date: January 1, 2025
excerpt: First sentence or two for the post list.
---

Your post body here. No headers, no lists — just paragraphs.

The filename becomes the URL slug. The post list sorts newest first automatically.

Development

npm install
npm run dev        # localhost:5173

Deploy

npm run deploy     # builds and pushes dist/ to gh-pages branch

Source lives on main. Built site is served from gh-pages.

This template provides a minimal setup to get React working in Vite with HMR and some ESLint rules.

Currently, two official plugins are available:

• @vitejs/plugin-react uses Oxc
• @vitejs/plugin-react-swc uses SWC

React Compiler

The React Compiler is not enabled on this template because of its impact on dev & build performances. To add it, see this documentation.

Expanding the ESLint configuration

If you are developing a production application, we recommend updating the configuration to enable type-aware lint rules:

export default defineConfig([
  globalIgnores(['dist']),
  {
    files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'],
    extends: [
      // Other configs...

      // Remove tseslint.configs.recommended and replace with this
      tseslint.configs.recommendedTypeChecked,
      // Alternatively, use this for stricter rules
      tseslint.configs.strictTypeChecked,
      // Optionally, add this for stylistic rules
      tseslint.configs.stylisticTypeChecked,

      // Other configs...
    ],
    languageOptions: {
      parserOptions: {
        project: ['./tsconfig.node.json', './tsconfig.app.json'],
        tsconfigRootDir: import.meta.dirname,
      },
      // other options...
    },
  },
])

You can also install eslint-plugin-react-x and eslint-plugin-react-dom for React-specific lint rules:

// eslint.config.js
import reactX from 'eslint-plugin-react-x'
import reactDom from 'eslint-plugin-react-dom'

export default defineConfig([
  globalIgnores(['dist']),
  {
    files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'],
    extends: [
      // Other configs...
      // Enable lint rules for React
      reactX.configs['recommended-typescript'],
      // Enable lint rules for React DOM
      reactDom.configs.recommended,
    ],
    languageOptions: {
      parserOptions: {
        project: ['./tsconfig.node.json', './tsconfig.app.json'],
        tsconfigRootDir: import.meta.dirname,
      },
      // other options...
    },
  },
])