jradd/blog

Minimalist database less blog engine

Minimalist Blog Engine snehesh.me

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TL;DR

Publish a blog post with git push

My motivation to build this blog engine was based on 3 factors.

• Write on any device ( i.e Mobile, Laptop) using CLI or text editor
• Never worry about database backups and keep track of all changes I made on an article
• Make publishing simple without touching the server

This project uses git to track all changes made on an article, as all the writing is done in markdown format, I can write posts on multiple devices ( CLI (Termux) on Android, VIM or Sublime on Arch ) switching back and forth. Finally I can publish those writings by adding metadata to the metadata.json file. In other words the posts are visible on blog only when they are enabled in metadata.json.

Usage

docker pull snehesh/blogengine:latest

	Environmental Variables
		POSTS_GIT_REPO
		POSTS_GIT_REPO_SECRET

		docker run -d \
		-e POSTS_GIT_REPO="https://github.com/snehesht/BLOGPOSTS_REPO" \
		-e POSTS_GIT_REPO_SECRET="SECRET HERE" \
		-p 5000:5000 \
		--name be1 snehesh/blogengine:latest

Stack

• Python 3
• Flask
• Markdown
• Github Webhook