bkielczewski / akanke

Tech Blogging Engine

Akanke - Tech Blogging Engine

Aims to provide minimalistic blogging experience with more technical users in mind.

Features

• Backed by Markdown files.
• Fast, files are synced to and served from in-memory database.
• No database, dependencies or configuration necessary, just run the provided JAR.
• Wordpress compatible URL scheme for easy migration.
• Build-in Facebook integration for social features.
• Open source, 100% Java, free to use.

User Guide

For downloads and installation instructions check out the page: kielczewski.eu/akanke Otherwise just grab the binaries and run it, detailed instructions are provided in the example content.

Docker

You can pull it from Docker image:

docker pull bkielczewski/akanke

And then run:

docker run -rm -p 8080:8080 bkielczewski/akanke

Once it starts, point your browser to:

http://localhost:8080

Development

Requirements

• Java Platform (JDK) 8
• Apache Maven 3.x
• Node.js

Quick start

0. mvn install
1. cd akanke-web
2. mvn spring-boot:run
3. Point your browser to http://localhost:8080

Contributing

You're really welcome to contribute or share ideas. Given you know Spring it should be quite straight-forward to make at least some sense out of the code. If not, just ask questions and I'll try to help.

Road map

I'll be looking into:

• RSS feeds
• Supporting alternative templating engines (JSP)
• Admin module that allows creating and editing Markdown files online
• Build-in Git integration to store and sync ./documents contents using a repo

Release History

03/01/2015 - 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT made public