First impression

After a few days of using Alpine, I can say that I'm very impressed. It's a very simple and easy to use theme. I was a bit worried about the installation process, but it was very easy. I just had to run a few commands and I was ready to go. I'm very happy with the result.

However, my linter and formatter gave me a bit of a hard time when I tried to use the theme. I had to disable them to get the theme to work. Also mdx turned out to be much less intuitive than I thought. I had to spend a lot of time to get it to work. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not a big fan of documentation or if it's because I'm not used to using mdx. I'm sure that after a few more days of using Alpine, I'll get used to it.

Settings

After adding the following to my setting, the formatter stopped destroying the beautiful initial layout of the theme and I could concentrate on my first blog post.

In .vscode/settings.json I added the following:

{
    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
        "source.fixAll.eslint": false
      },
      "editor.formatOnSave": false,
      "[markdown]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": null
      }
}

Adding pictures turned out to be much more simple than with the plain HTML. At tis point I started to like mdx more. It is indeed a great achievement to bring out blog creation to the masses. I decided to leave the starter articles in my blog as they will definitely help those planning to learn mdx and get into a habit of writing blog posts.

Deployment on Vercel

I decided to deploy my blog on Vercel. I had to create a new project and link it to my GitHub repository. Vercel dashboard proved to be very intuitive and easy to use. I had to add a few environment variables and I was ready to go. I had to wait a few minutes for the deployment to finish, but it was worth it. I'm very happy with the result. Also, the speed of deployment is amazing. I didn't have to make a build. Immediately after making the initial commit, the blog was available on the internet.

Conclusion

Although, the deployment was super fast and easy, I had to spend a lot of time to get the theme to work. Also, I still need to grock the contacts form. Probably, it was just left out as a template waiting for a php snippet to handle the form.