# Gridsome Blog Starter > A simple, hackable & minimalistic starter for Gridsome that uses Markdown for content. ### Features - Beautiful and simple design. - Markdown for content. - Taxonomy support for Tags. - Dark / Light toggle. - 100, 100, 100, 100 score on Google Lighthouse. - Uses same front-matter fields as Dev.to. ### Install #### 1. Install Gridsome CLI tool if you don't have `npm install --global @gridsome/cli` #### 2. Install this starter 1. `gridsome create my-gridsome-site https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome-starter-blog.git` 2. `cd my-gridsome-site` to open folder 3. `gridsome develop` to start local dev server at `http://localhost:8080` 4. Happy coding 🎉🙌