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