SpringBlog

SpringBlog is a very simple and clean-design blog system implemented with Spring Boot. I had put it on production for my personal bvn13's blog since 2017-11-03.

SpringBlog is powered by many powerful frameworks and third-party projects:

• Spring Boot and many of Spring familiy (e.g. Spring MVC, Spring JPA, Spring Secruity and etc)
• Hibernate + PostgreSQL
• HikariCP - A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool
• Bootstrap - A very popular and responsive front-end framework
• Pegdown - A pure-java markdown processor (deprecated)
• ACE Editor - A high performance code editor which I use to write posts and code.
• Pygments - A python library for highlighting code syntax (deprecated)
• Flexmark - Java implementation of CommonMark 0.28 spec parser using the blocks first, inlines after Markdown parsing architecture
• Jade4j - Jade is an elegant template language.
• Webjars - A client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files. A easy way to manage JavaScript and CSS vendors in Gradle.
• Redis - A very powerful in-memory data cache server.
• Prism - syntax highlighter
• HighCharts - charts JS-library
• TelegramBots - telegram bot API for sending announcements of posts into Telegram Channel
• Date Range Picker - A JavaScript component for choosing date ranges. Designed to work with the Bootstrap CSS framework.

Changelog

2018-04-19

• Added subscription link into NavBar
• Implemented http proxy using for telegram notifier

2018-01-29

• Implemented live post content preview without saving

2017-12-25

• Added chart filters into admin dashboard using Date Range Picker

2017-12-22 - SpringBlog version 2.8.0 is released

• SpringBoot updated upto 1.4.9
• Added announcements for posts
• Implemented Telegram Bot aimed at sending posts announcements into Telegram Channel

2017-12-21

• Added Visitors Statistics chart onto Admin Dashboard (powered with HighCharts)

2017-11-27

• Improved checking robots' user-agents by comparison using RegExp

2017-11-23

• Added OpenGraph fields into post page

2017-11-21

• Implemented opening of images in modal form
• Implemented Flexmark plugin - converter from regular link to embedded-frame for Youtube videos

2017-11-20

• Implemented exclusion of search-robots from visit counting.

2017-11-15

• Implemented visitors counting (depends on X-Real-IP header)
• Implemented likes/dislikes (depends on X-Real-IP header)

2017-11-14

• Added RememberMe checkbox into login form, increased RememberMe cookie timeout upto 7 days
• Added Prism syntax highlighter instead of github-markdown-css

2017-11-13

• Draft posts are hidden now by direct link
• Prevented creating admin user from constants if email of admin was changed from the database

2017-11-11

• Implemented /seo/sitemap.xml file containing information about all published posts

2017-11-09

• Implemented files uploads/downloads

2017-11-08

• Added sharing buttons via sharethis.com - register and change verification code to use it
• Removed deprecated Jython, Pygments and Pegdown. Replaced with Flexmark and github-markdown-css

2017-11-07

• Added 'admin' button on the home page if admin is logged in
• Added SEO meta-tags:
  1. list of keywords
  2. description
• Updated html > head > title for posts pages

2017-11-03

• Forked from SpringBlog by Raysmon
• Migrated onto SpringBoot 1.5.8, all libraries updated

Development

Before development, please install the following service software:

• MySQL
• Redis
• Pygments

Edit the spring config profile src/main/resources/application.yml according to your settings.

And start MySQL and Redis first before running the application.

# If you're using Ubuntu server

# Install MySQL
apt-get install mysql-server
service mysql start
mysql -u root -p
>> create database spring_blog;


# Install Python pygments
apt-get install python-pip
pip install pygments

# If you want to enable redis cache
# Install redis server first, you can find instructions
# from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-redis
service redis_6379 start

This is a Gradle project. Make sure Gradle is installed in your machine. Try gradle -v command. Otherwise install in from http://www.gradle.org/. I recommend you import the source code into Intellij IDE to edit the code.

# Start the web application
./gradlew bootRun

Development

How to import the project into Intellij IDEA and run from the IDE?

1. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/Raysmond/SpringBlog.git
2. Download all dependencies cd SpringBlog ./gradlew idea
3. Open the project in Intellij IDEA.
4. Run Application.java as Java application.
5. Preview: http://localhost:8001 Admin: http://localhost:8001/admin , the default admin account is: admin@admin.com, password: admin

Lombok is required to run the project. You can install the plugin in Intellij IDEA. Reference: https://github.com/mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin

Deployment

• Build application jar ./gradlew build, then upload the distribution jar (e.g. build/libs/SpringBlog-0.1.jar) to your remote server.

• Upload application-production.yml to your server and change it according to your server settings.

• Run it (Java8 is a must)

  # assuming you have the jar and yml files under current dir
  java -jar SpringBlog-0.1.jar --spring.config.location=application-production.yml
  

License

Modified BSD license. Copyright (c) 2015 - Jiankun LEI (Raysmond), 2017 - Vyacheslav Boyko (bvn13).