Building a Blog with Next.js and MDX

I’ve re-done my website with content authoring in [MDX](https://mdxjs.com/), powered by [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/). I’ve open sourced a [Next.js MDX Blog Starter](https://nextjs-mdx-blog-starter.vercel.app/) so you can too.

I reach for Next.js because it scales to what I need it to do. It can build a simple static blog like this one, or a SaaS app with parameterized routing, serverless backet, user auth and an integrated API (see my [Hello Next App](https://hellonextapp.com/) project for example). I pretty much use it for everything new I’m building on the web these days.

MDX is a powerful tool for authoring content. It gives you everything that authoring your content in markdown does, but with the added superpower of being able to drop in React components at will. For a web developer blog, that’s obviously pretty appealing.