Simple 04
A centred hero on the brand colour with an email sign-up, then a grid of posts and a Load more button.
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/**
* Simple 04: A centred hero on the brand colour with an email sign-up, then a grid of posts and a Load more button.
*
* @block blog
* @order 8
*/
import Section from '@/components/apogee/Section/Section.astro'
import SectionHeader from '@/components/apogee/SectionHeader/SectionHeader.astro'
import PostCard from '@/components/apogee/PostCard/PostCard.astro'
import { plain } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/spine.ts'
import { toCard, type BlogContent, type Post } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/blog.ts'
import Grid from '@/components/apogee/Grid/Grid.astro'
import Input from '@/components/apogee/Input/Input.astro'
import Button from '@/components/apogee/Button/Button.astro'
import Link from '@/components/apogee/Link/Link.astro'
const demoPosts: Post[] = [
{
title: 'Designing review sessions people look forward to',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'How to run critiques that sharpen the work instead of draining the room.',
date: '2026-01-20',
readingTime: '8 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-1/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Design', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Ada Lovelace', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Design', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }, { name: 'Process', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
},
{
title: 'Migrating to a typed component library',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'What changed when we moved two hundred screens onto one set of typed parts.',
date: '2026-01-19',
readingTime: '6 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-2/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Alan Turing', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Tooling', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
{
title: 'Building your first internal API',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'The shape of a small API that teams can grow without rewriting.',
date: '2026-01-18',
readingTime: '7 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-3/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Grace Hopper', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'APIs', href: '#', color: 'warning' }],
},
{
title: 'A field guide to product discovery',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Questions that turn a vague request into something you can build.',
date: '2026-01-16',
readingTime: '5 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-4/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Katherine Johnson', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
{
title: 'Writing release notes people read',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Lead with what changed for the reader, not what changed in the code.',
date: '2026-01-15',
readingTime: '4 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-5/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Margaret Hamilton', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Writing', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
},
{
title: 'Leadership lessons from a year of remote teams',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Rituals, writing and trust: what held a distributed team together.',
date: '2026-01-14',
readingTime: '9 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-6/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Leadership', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Alan Kay', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Leadership', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Remote', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
]
/** @composable */
interface Props extends BlogContent {
/** The sign-up form's submit button. @category content */
submitLabel?: string
}
const {
eyebrow = 'Our blog',
heading = 'Stories and interviews',
description = 'Interviews, tips, guides, industry best practices, and news.',
items = demoPosts,
locale = Astro.currentLocale ?? 'en',
secondaryAction = { label: 'Load more', href: '?page=2' },
submitLabel = 'Subscribe',
} = Astro.props
---
<Section spacing="large" background="primary">
<SectionHeader eyebrow={eyebrow ?? undefined} heading={plain(heading)} description={description ?? undefined} background="primary" size="large" align="center" headingLevel={1} class="mb-8" />
<div class="flex justify-center"><form method="post" class="flex w-full flex-col gap-2 sm:max-w-md">
<div class="flex flex-col gap-3 sm:flex-row">
<Input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Enter your email" aria-label="Email" autocomplete="email" required class="flex-1" />
<Button type="submit" color="neutral">{submitLabel}</Button>
</div>
<p class="text-sm opacity-85">We care about your data in our <Link href="#" color="inherit">privacy policy</Link>.</p>
</form></div>
</Section>
<Section spacing="large">
<Grid as="ul" cols={{ base: 1, md: 2, lg: 3 }} gap={8} class="list-none p-0">
{items.slice(0).map((post) => (
<li><PostCard post={toCard(post)} locale={locale} frame="overlay" meta="none" footer="link" headingLevel={2} class="h-full" /></li>
))}
</Grid>
{secondaryAction && (
<div class="mt-12 flex justify-center">
<Button href={secondaryAction.href} variant="outline" color="neutral" size="large">{secondaryAction.label}</Button>
</div>
)}
</Section>
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/**
* Simple 04: A centred hero on the brand colour with an email sign-up, then a grid of posts and a Load more button.
*
* @block blog
* @order 8
*/
import Section from '@/components/apogee/Section/Section.astro'
import SectionHeader from '@/components/apogee/SectionHeader/SectionHeader.astro'
import PostCard from '@/components/apogee/PostCard/PostCard.astro'
import { plain } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/spine.ts'
import { toCard, type BlogContent, type Post } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/blog.ts'
import Grid from '@/components/apogee/Grid/Grid.astro'
import Input from '@/components/apogee/Input/Input.astro'
import Button from '@/components/apogee/Button/Button.astro'
import Link from '@/components/apogee/Link/Link.astro'
const demoPosts: Post[] = [
{
title: 'Designing review sessions people look forward to',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'How to run critiques that sharpen the work instead of draining the room.',
date: '2026-01-20',
readingTime: '8 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-1/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Design', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Ada Lovelace', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Design', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }, { name: 'Process', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
},
{
title: 'Migrating to a typed component library',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'What changed when we moved two hundred screens onto one set of typed parts.',
date: '2026-01-19',
readingTime: '6 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-2/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Alan Turing', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Tooling', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
{
title: 'Building your first internal API',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'The shape of a small API that teams can grow without rewriting.',
date: '2026-01-18',
readingTime: '7 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-3/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Grace Hopper', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'APIs', href: '#', color: 'warning' }],
},
{
title: 'A field guide to product discovery',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Questions that turn a vague request into something you can build.',
date: '2026-01-16',
readingTime: '5 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-4/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Katherine Johnson', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
{
title: 'Writing release notes people read',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Lead with what changed for the reader, not what changed in the code.',
date: '2026-01-15',
readingTime: '4 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-5/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Margaret Hamilton', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Writing', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
},
{
title: 'Leadership lessons from a year of remote teams',
href: '#',
excerpt: 'Rituals, writing and trust: what held a distributed team together.',
date: '2026-01-14',
readingTime: '9 min read',
image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-6/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
category: { name: 'Leadership', href: '#' },
author: { name: 'Alan Kay', href: '#' },
tags: [{ name: 'Leadership', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Remote', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
},
]
/** @composable */
interface Props extends BlogContent {
/** The sign-up form's submit button. @category content */
submitLabel?: string
}
const {
eyebrow = 'Our blog',
heading = 'Stories and interviews',
description = 'Interviews, tips, guides, industry best practices, and news.',
items = demoPosts,
locale = Astro.currentLocale ?? 'en',
secondaryAction = { label: 'Load more', href: '?page=2' },
submitLabel = 'Subscribe',
} = Astro.props
---
<Section spacing="large" background="primary">
<SectionHeader eyebrow={eyebrow ?? undefined} heading={plain(heading)} description={description ?? undefined} background="primary" size="large" align="center" headingLevel={1} class="mb-8" />
<div class="flex justify-center"><form method="post" class="flex w-full flex-col gap-2 sm:max-w-md">
<div class="flex flex-col gap-3 sm:flex-row">
<Input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Enter your email" aria-label="Email" autocomplete="email" required class="flex-1" />
<Button type="submit" color="neutral">{submitLabel}</Button>
</div>
<p class="text-sm opacity-85">We care about your data in our <Link href="#" color="inherit">privacy policy</Link>.</p>
</form></div>
</Section>
<Section spacing="large">
<Grid as="ul" cols={{ base: 1, md: 2, lg: 3 }} gap={8} class="list-none p-0">
{items.slice(0).map((post) => (
<li><PostCard post={toCard(post)} locale={locale} frame="overlay" meta="none" footer="link" headingLevel={2} class="h-full" /></li>
))}
</Grid>
{secondaryAction && (
<div class="mt-12 flex justify-center">
<Button href={secondaryAction.href} variant="outline" color="neutral" size="large">{secondaryAction.label}</Button>
</div>
)}
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npx @ava-ui/apogee add blog/simple-04
Every piece of copy is a prop, with the sample copy as its default. Pass yours, or null to hide a part; see copy is props.
This copies the block to src/components/apogee/blocks/blog/ with everything it uses: Button, Grid, Input, Link, PostCard, Section, SectionHeader. It opens a blog index page (its heading is the page’s h1). Swap the posts array for your content collection. Use Copy code above to paste it instead.
Accessibility
- Each post is one link: the title stretches over the card, and the author, category and tag links sit above it and stay clickable.
- The decorative arrow and the images are hidden from screen readers (their alt is empty because the title already names the post).
- The email field is named by
aria-label="Email"(the placeholder is not a label); the form submits without JS.