Skyplume Ships a Next.js 15 Blog Template That Hits Triple 100s on Lighthouse Out of the Box
Most blog starters ship with broken SEO, missing feeds, and Lighthouse scores that start in the 60s. A template that clears 100 on three Lighthouse audits and bakes in structured data, RSS, and sitemap from day one removes the maintenance tax that kills personal writing momentum.
Skyplume is a Next.js 15 blog template built on the App Router, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4, and Contentlayer. It was extracted from a live production blog at 0x1ai.com, not assembled as a one-off demo. The template bundles MDX writing with front matter, code highlighting, math rendering, tags, pagination, RSS, sitemap, robots.txt, local search, dark mode, and optional Giscus comments.
SEO is wired in from the start: Open Graph, Twitter Cards, canonical URLs, and auto-generated BlogPosting JSON-LD structured data. The base install scores 100 on Lighthouse for Performance, Best Practices, and SEO before any third-party scripts or images are added. Configuration lives in plain data files and small React components, avoiding a heavy CMS.
Deployment targets Vercel with a one-click button, but static export is also supported. The design philosophy is content-first — restrained typography, stable dark mode, and lightweight route transitions — so the template stays out of the way once writing begins.
Extracting a template from a live production blog rather than building one from scratch means the design has already survived real content, not just lorem ipsum.
Triple-100 Lighthouse scores are rare in the Next.js starter ecosystem; most templates trade performance for visual flair and leave SEO as an afterthought.
Bundling JSON-LD structured data generation directly from front matter closes a gap that many static blogs never address, which hurts search visibility.
The template's restraint — no CMS, no database, plain data files — lowers the long-term maintenance surface. A blog that is just files in a repo is trivial to migrate, back up, and version.
Static export support matters for developers who want to host on GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, or a cheap object store instead of paying for a Node server.