This should be a good jumping off point for building sites with zola. I started with this blog post as a reference, but numerous things are out of date because javascript. From there, built out the bones of a template using https://github.com/tchartron/blow as a reference.
You'll need zola, node, and yarn
$ git clone [email protected]:b5/zola_tailwind_template.git
$ cd zola_tailwind_template
$ yarn
$ yarn dev
then visit 127.0.0.1:1111 in a browser