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Gading.dev

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Updated: 11 May 2025
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My Personal Homepage & Blog site with NextJS.

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Overview

The article discusses Gading’s Hideout, a personal homepage and blog site built using NextJS. It highlights various features of the site and acknowledges the inspiration behind its creation. The project utilizes create-next-app to bootstrap the Next.js setup and also mentions a zero-setup global state management library developed by the author.

Features

  • Dark Mode: The site has a dark mode feature.
  • Color System Documentation: The site provides documentation for its color system.
  • Mobile friendly: The site is optimized for mobile devices.
  • Stateful MDX: Allows the writing of stateful components in Markdown.
  • Synchronizing media images to Cloudinary CDN: Media images are synced to the Cloudinary CDN.
  • Optimized image scaling & Lazyload with blur effect: Images on the site are optimized for scaling and lazyloaded with a blur effect, similar to Instagram.
  • Reading-time prediction: The site predicts the reading time for articles, similar to Medium.
  • I18n (Internationalization) content: Supports internationalization of content.
  • Page transition and effect: Provides smooth page transitions and effects.
  • Posts pagination: Implements pagination for blog posts to improve performance.
  • Automate Lighthouse report: Automates the generation of Lighthouse reports.
  • Web Analytic integration with umami: Integrates web analytics using umami.
  • SEO Optimized with meta information tags: Implements meta information tags for SEO optimization.
  • Feed RSS & Sitemap: Provides RSS feed and sitemap functionality.
  • On Demand Revalidation: Supports on-demand revalidation of pages.
  • Comment & Reaction System with Disqus plugin: Integrates a comment and reaction system using the Disqus plugin.
  • Social share: Allows for social sharing on platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, WhatsApp, and Telegram.
  • Use app dir with RSC in Next 13: Utilizes the app directory with RSC in Next.js version 13 (work in progress).
  • Push notifications support with OneSignal and Zapier Integration: Supports push notifications with integration of OneSignal and Zapier (work in progress).
  • PWA / Offline-first: Implements Progressive Web App functionality with offline-first support (work in progress).
  • Search posts: Implements post search functionality (work in progress).
  • Sorting posts by date & tags: Allows sorting of posts by date and tags (work in progress).

Installation

To install the Gading’s Hideout theme, you will need the following prerequisites:

  • Node.js

The installation steps are as follows:

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone ...

  2. Install dependencies:

    npm install

  3. Run the development server:

    npm run dev

  4. Open the site in your browser:

    http://localhost:3000/

Summary

The article presents Gading’s Hideout, a Next.js-based personal homepage and blog site. It showcases various features of the site, including dark mode, stateful MDX, optimized image scaling, reading-time prediction, and internationalization support. The article also mentions ongoing features and planned enhancements such as push notifications, PWA support, and post search functionality. The author credits Creative Tim, Vitor Britto, Marina Aisa, Ankur Parihar, and themselves for inspiring and contributing to the project.