Bloggero

Bloggero -- engine for static blogs with a single page interface written in Elm with Material Design Light.

Download and start with Elm

Guide and download link for Elm

If You plan to develop in an environment such as the Atom editor, you should install Elm globally.

npm install -g elm

First

I recommend that you first fork or clone this repository in order to be able to update your blog application from these sources.

Build

Go into the downloaded directory then:

npm run build -- --output=the_path_to_your_blog/app.js

This will download the required packages for Elm and build the application from source.

If You want to build for sample a blog, run:

npm run build -- --output=sample/app.js

Usage

Once setup, you can edit the blog page as plain text files. Supported formats are Markdown and HTML.

Each page of the blog is a subdirectory of the blog directory, which should contain two files:

• index.json -- page description
• index.markdown or index.html -- page content

This folder can also contain other content, such as images.

For non-static pages write the appropriate code for Elm in the src directory. You can also link to Javascript.

Run a static web server:

npm start -- --output=the_path_to_your_blog/app.js --dir=the_path_to_your_blog

If You want to see for sample a blog, run:

npm start -- --output=sample/app.js --dir=sample

If You want to your blog automatically shows up in the browser, add the option --open.

Please note that the packages required by Elm are installed automatically, but you can install them yourself:

npm install -g elm
elm package install

Development

For automated building and reloading of the application, you can use elm-live:

npm start -- --output=the_path_to_your_blog/app.js --dir=the_path_to_your_blog

Customizing

Pay special attention to what is in the directory sample is a example template. For your blog, copy those files to a new directory, and then edit the config.json in appropriate directory to configure the blog/website.

Alternative usage with Gulp

If You want to see for sample a blog, run:

gulp

This sets by default options:

• --output sample/app.js
• --dir sample

Full command:

gulp --output=the_path_to_your_blog/app.js --dir=the_path_to_your_blog

Use --debug option for enable debug history. By default false.

Technologies

The project is written in Elm version 0.18 using the elm-mdl, which implements on Elm user interface Material Design Lite.

Our users

See USERS.md.

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(c) Evgeniy A. Simonenko easimonenko@mail.ru, 2016-2017