ghost-blade

A slightly opinionated convenience wrapper for the ghost blog system that lets you use ghost as an express middleware. While being similar to ghost-on-heroku (thanks for the inspiration), it enables you to run ghost on any JS hosting platform.

Installation

npm install ghost-blade

API

ghost-blade exports a function that takes a ghostConfig object and returns a promise of an express middleware. The ghostConfig object is checked for secure production settings and then passed directly to ghost. See all config options at Configuring ghost.

Use the config file examples below as a starter. ghost-blade prohibits insecure settings or settings involving local file storage to enable you to run your blog on popular JS hosting services (e. g. Heroku, Bitnami).

Usage example

// index.js
import express from 'express'
import ghostBlade from 'ghost-blade'
import logger from 'winston'

import config from './config.js'
import ghostConfig from './ghostConfig.js'

var app = express()

ghostBlade({ghostConfig})
    .then(function (ghostBladeMiddleware) {
        app.use('/', ghostBladeMiddleware)
        app.listen(config.server.port, config.server.host, function () {
            logger.info('listening on ' + config.server.host + ':' + config.server.port + ' in ' + process.env.NODE_ENV + ' mode')
        })
    })
    .catch(function (e) {
        logger.error(e)
    })

// config.js
const config = {
    development: {
        server: {
            host: 'localhost',
            port: 1336
        }
    },
    production: {
        url: 'http://yourapp.com',
        server: {
            host: '0.0.0.0',
            port: process.env.PORT || 1336
        }
    }
}

export default config[process.env.NODE_ENV]

// ghostConfig.js
export default {
    development: {
        url: 'http://localhost:1336',
        database: {
            client: 'mysql',
            connection: mysql://user:password@host/database
        }
    },
    production: {
        url: process.env.URL,
        database: {
            client: 'mysql',
            connection: mysql://user:password@host/database
        },
        fileStorage: false,
        forceAdminSSL: true
    }
}