emdash

Simple blogging with node/iojs + GitHub.

Details

The project goals/plans include:

• simple node/iojs-based blog management system with minimal dependencies:
  • asynquence: async flow control
  • (possibly) native promise only: ES6 promise polyfill, for interaction with other libs, and/or to replace asynquence
  • grips: html & css templating
  • markdown rendering
  • git/GitHub/oauth
• no database:
  • data persistence is either in local git, or (preferably) remote git/GitHub
• user/auth is GitHub accounts
• post content:
  • authored in markdown
  • stored/versioned in git/GitHub/gist.github
  • publishing can be "staged" via git branching
  • automation handled via git hooks
  • by default, all posts can be "forked" from the blog software with a "fork this" button on post; allows access to source markdown to any user
• comments stored in gist.github:
  • private gist per post, for comment thread
  • (admin) comment approval workflow promotes from gist comment to static cache file (per post)
• simple html/text and css templating:
  • simple default theme(s)
  • custom themes
• incremental/partial caching in static files
• site architecture:
  • simple "middle end" adaptive hybrid techniques
  • server-side templating renders initial page view
  • client-side templating takes over, renders all pages in SPA-style
  • client performance monitoring, middle-end can disable client-side rendering and fall back to server-side if needed
• admin tools:
  • permissions driven by GitHub user settings
  • all settings changes made either alter the code or JSON config files
  • blog authoring can (should) be done externally, and admin tools just ingest/publish from git/GitHub source

License

The code and all the documentation are released under the MIT license.

http://getify.mit-license.org/