Not Production ready, still in development

mdSilo-spc

Self-hosted online writing platform for individual or small club, which comes as a single executable with feed subscription, publishing writing and live collaboration. Focus on the Markdown content with support on syntax highlighting, WikiLink, Hashtag, mermaid diagram, LaTex and more, be it a blog, a knowledge base, a forum or a combination of them.

Licensed under AGPLv3.

Features

• Easy to deploy with a single executable OR plus web app, no database to configure;
• Support Markdown and extensions: mermaid Diagram, Table, LaTex, syntax highlighting...
• Hashtag to organize writing;
• WikiLink to network writing;
• Dark and Light theme;
• Feed reader, support RSS and Atom;
• Efficient live collaboration;
• Configurable: customized css/js to style or add features...

Deploy

via released zip

Alert! Test on Ubuntu 22.04 only

• Download the zip from release
• Unzip, you get a spc executable file and a dist folder for collaborative editor frontend
• create a config.toml file and/or run ./spc
• config your web server like nginx

Road map

Subscription

• Feed aggregator, support RSS and Atom
• Feed reader, support RSS and Atom

Publishing

• Writing with Markdown

  • Common Markdown
  • Highlight code block
  • Math: inline $\LaTeX$ and block $$\LaTeX$$
  • Wikilink: [[]]
  • Diagram: mermaid...

• Organize writing

  • Hashtag
  • viz graph
  • Storify

• Spread writing

  • RSS output

Collaboration

• Live collaboration
• Preview markdown and ABC Music notes
• Auth on collaboration
• Live Chat on collaboration
• forum

Tech Stack

• Axum(Rust): Server side rendering and API
• Askama: Template engine
• sled: store some temp data
• sqlite: persist data
• WebAssembly: collaborative operation
• React + monaco-editor: frontend of collaborative text editor

Credits

The collaborative editor is highly inspired by rustpad.