matthias-reis/woodward

Blog application entirely written in React

Reacive-Blog

A blogging system based on node.js and react as the frontend technology running on the server side and the client side.

Technological artifacts

• (p)react js - using preact probably
• flow typed
• node js backend
• unified language level (babel stage 3 on the server side and the client side)
• transpiled by webpack on the client and babel on the server
• express js on the server
• couch db as database
• styled components as main styling language

What does our blog software need?

• compatibility to heroku and other cloud hosting systems
• writing articles in a taxonomy system
• in place editing / edit mode with a medium like interface
• writing comments using the same interface
• ready to run system
• optional production ready caching
• service worker for the assets
• labels with different taxonomies and m:n relation to articles
• taxonomy based m:n relations between articles
  • eg link a -> b, next a -> b, previous b -> a, see-also a -> b
• auto relation and link control system (a link remains intact even if the name changes)
• simple and static permalink structure
  • /taxonomy/article-slug
  • /labels/taxonomy/label-slug
• async loading of comments (only the article itself is sync)
• trackback / pingback function
• support for rss and atom
• incremental popup search
• tracking system (internal - showing statistics in the backend)
• admin console backend
  • displaying statistics
• clippings: small movable snippets that can be placed in widget areas
• easy widget system

woodward's Issues

express server and general setup

redux setup and backend roundtrip

couch db setup

setup client side rendering

setup templating

using ejs with a context object

setup compete serverside asset delivery

setup styling with jss

setup loggin

• application log with npmlog to stdout
• access log with morgan as a one day log rotation

find a name

babel and react setup