React Drive CMS

Publish articles directly from Google Drive to your blog with React JS. Simple setup with no transpiling.

Live demo here: http://misterfresh.github.io/react-drive-cms/

Features:

• A dynamic site, but no backend to manage, no database, no server, no hosting & no maintenance
• A MS Word-like and MS Excel-like interface that users are familiar with
• Disqus comments system integration
• SendGrid email forwarding integration so that you can receive messages from the contact form on your email address.
• Regular URLs (no hashbang)
• A simple blog starter kit that can be easily customized to your liking.

How to use:

1. In your Google Drive, create folders and files following the names and structure used here : https://docs.google.com/folderview?id=0B0A_zASTMp9WU0NMYW9wXzVQWjg&usp=drivesdk

2. Add to the "Dashboard" sheet the following bound script: https://gist.github.com/misterfresh/e1c9cf0bb4c777221f84 . This will create a new "Update" button with which you can automatically update the Dashboard file. Change the projectFolderName on line 9 in the Dashboard Script to the name of your drive folder if necessary. Publish the Dashboard sheet to the web via File>Publish to the Web.

3. In order for the contact form to work, publish the following script as a Google Web App: https://gist.github.com/misterfresh/b69d29a97cf415980be2 . In your "Visitors" Google spreadsheet, go to Tools>Script Editor. You can create a free SendGrid account and paste your SendGrid API key in the script. Save the script and click on Publish>Deploy as Web App. .

4. Fill in the correct values in ./conf.js :

   • "dashboardId" is the id of the "Dashboard" Google spreadsheet.
   • "sendContactMessageUrlId" is the id of the Google Web App script that does the email forwarding
   • "shortname" is the website's Disqus identifier
   • "root" is an optional url parameter, that would be the name of the project on GitHub pages.

5. Push to a "gh-pages" branch on GitHub to publish on GitHub Pages

That's it!

How to customize, no tools required:

From a terminal, run:

npm run start

This will start the local server. Open http://localhost:8080/ in your favorite browser.