brandonmowat/medium-blog

A blog that works kind of like medium.

#What Medium Blog is an Open Source blogging system that functions in a similar way to [medium.com(http://medium.com)]. It has an awesome editor and an authentication system, so blogging is fun and easy.

#features

• user auth for posting new articles
• inline editor (medium-like)
• User sessions (keeps you logged in)

#to set up on your local machine: ###before set-up, you must have node and mongodb installed

• clone the repo
• install npm dependencies from the root of the project

$ npm install

• make a "data" folder in the root of the project
• run an instance of mongodb in another tab

$ mongod --dbpath ~/Path/to/blog/data/

#####You'll have to create an account for yourself in the database:

• start the mongo shell in another tab

$ mongo

> use blog

> db.users.insert({ "username":"(a string of the username you want)", "password":"(*an md5 hash of the password you want*)"})

• Then just spin-up the server

npm start

####You're good to go! Go to localhost:3000 and start blogging!

#todo:

• insert photos
• editing
• reverse chronological order
• Global navigation bar

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