Biscus

🗒️ Biscus is a Nuxt theme, that can use GitHub Discussions as your blog.

Features

• Clean design and good layout for every size of screen.
• Use GitHub Discussions to store the posts of your blog. No need for a backend.
• Enable Giscus by default, get connect with your reader.
• Good layout and design for showing contents and content.
• Support searching from GitHub Discussions.
• Support Light / Dark Theme.

Getting Started

We provide a template that you can quickly start using Biscus.

Before you start, you'll need a GitHub Token without any scopes. Because GitHub GraphQL API requires a token to send requests.

1. Click New personal access token (classic).
2. Set Expiration to no expiration or other times you want.
3. Make sure that you don't select any scopes. Then, this token only has public access.
4. Click Generate, and copy the token down.

Starting from the template

1. You'll need to fork or use the template to create a new repository. Remember to select Include all branches.
2. After creating the new repository, you can change to the template branch or make it default.
3. Then, you can edit the app.config.ts in the main directory.

export default defineAppConfig({
  biscus: {
    // name of the blog
    name: 'My Project',
    // description of the blog
    description: 'This is my project',
    // the id of the discussions category
    categoryId: 'DIC_kwDOKWmCx84CZh1q',
    // repository of the blog
    repository: 'ocoke/Biscus',
    // the id of the repository
    repositoryId: 'R_kgDOKWmCxw=',
    // the banner of the blog
    banner: {
      title: 'This is Biscus!',
      subtitle: 'hi, this is biscus'
    },
    // the navigation bar of the blog
    nav: {
      title: 'My Project',
      home: '/',
      links: [
        {
          name: 'Home',
          href: '/'
        },
        {
          name: 'About',
          href: '/about'
        }
      ]
    },
  }
})    

Starting from an existing project

Biscus is a Nuxt theme, you can add it to your existing project.

WARNING There may be conflicts with your existing project or dependencies.

1. Install Biscus via Yarn / NPM or other package managers.

yarn add biscus

2. Edit nuxt.config.ts:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  extends: ['biscus'],
})

3. Edit app.config.ts:

export default defineAppConfig({
  biscus: {
    // name of the blog
    name: 'My Project',
    // description of the blog
    description: 'This is my project',
    // the id of the discussions category
    categoryId: 'DIC_kwDOKWmCx84CZh1q',
    // repository of the blog
    repository: 'ocoke/Biscus',
    // the id of the repository
    repositoryId: 'R_kgDOKWmCxw=',
    // the banner of the blog
    banner: {
      title: 'This is Biscus!',
      subtitle: 'hi, this is biscus'
    },
    // the navigation bar of the blog
    nav: {
      title: 'My Project',
      home: '/',
      links: [
        {
          name: 'Home',
          href: '/'
        },
        {
          name: 'About',
          href: '/about'
        }
      ]
    },
  }
})    

4. Set Environment Variable NUXT_GITHUB_TOKEN to a GitHub Token without any scopes:

NUXT_GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx