How I'd build a Medium-style blog with React Router

You do not need a CMS to publish writing on the web. With React Router's framework mode you get server rendering, nested routes, and data loaders out of the box, which is most of what a blogging platform needs.

The three pieces

• A route that lists posts, like this site's /blog index.
• A dynamic /blog/:slug route with a loader that fetches one post.
• A content source. Start with MDX files and keep the route shape stable.

Because the loader runs on the server, the reader gets fully-rendered HTML and search engines see real content.

MDX keeps authoring close to normal Markdown while still letting you drop in React components when a post needs something richer than prose.

The important part is the boundary: writers edit files in content/blog, and the app decides how those files should look.

This post is a placeholder while the real implementation notes get written up.